Quotes About Development

Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long...

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.

Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long.

The trouble with a kitten is that....... It eventually becomes a cat!

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

The trouble with a kitten is THAT Eventually it becomes a CAT

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on far too long.

Progress is a fine thing, but it's gone on long enough.

It has been said that man at ten is an animal, at twenty a lunatic, at thirty a failure, at forty a fraud, and at fifty a criminal.

The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed ti be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, banded together for the common purpose of exploring the universe and developing the "human" spirit's manifold potentialities. Imperceptibly the young were led to discover for themselves this goal.

Fluidity, mobility, illusoriness—these are precisely the qualities that make us civilized.

But children aren't people. Children become people when they wriggle out of your arms and say "no.

One discovers, and names. Conquers and civilizes.

zaczynam wychodzi? z momentu "teraz" i stawa? ju? jedn? nog? w momencie "potem".

We speak of grown-ups being "tall," but a child is "long.

This is how she understands it: life on this planet gets developed by some powerful force contained in every atom of organic matter. It's a force there is no physical evidence of, for the time being- you can't catch it on even the most precise microscopic images, nor in photographs of the atomic spectrum.

He who stops being better stops being good.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

How we react to our friends as well as who we pick as a lover, our abilities and interests at work, in fact almost everything about our psychology as an adult is continually reflecting our childhood in our day-to-day, moment-by-moment experience.

By the early 1920s, the America of Jefferson, Lincoln, Whitman, and the young William Jennings Bryan had ceased to exist. It had been replaced by the world of McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, and Woodrow Wilson.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.