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Quotes About Development

A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
~ Adam Phillips, On Balance
He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray
~ Immanuel Kant
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature
~ Luther Burbank
The establishment of Christianity . . . arrested the normal development of the physical sciences for over fifteen hundred years.
~ Andrew Dickson White
All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
~ James Mark Baldwin
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
~ Jonathan Swift
Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.
~ Huey Lewis
Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
~ Samuel Butler
Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.
~ James G. Frazer
Our banking system grew byaccident; and wherever something happens byaccident, it becomes a religion.
~ Bill Vaughan
No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.
~ Lyman Beecher
There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.
~ Sam Harris
Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.
~ Maria Montessori
I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.
~ Maria Montessori
Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.
~ Bunker Roy
Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect.
~ Michael W. Fox
The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.
~ Roscoe Pound
Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Sure education is valuable in any respect regardless of what field you are in.
~ Marv Levy
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
~ Benjamin Disraeli