Quotes About Development

Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. [Address before the United Nations, September 25 1961]

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. [Undelivered remarks for Dallas Trade Mart, November 22 1963]

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have the liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecutre, Statuary, Tapestry, and Porcelaine.

Clearly, the John Adams of 1774 was quite different from the man who proclaimed "Farewell Politicks" in 1766 and again in 1771 and 1772.

All of us do not have equal talents, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents

Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundemental resource.

You're an Apprentice! You're not ready to think!" Gilan and Halt. The Ruins of Gorlan.

You're an apprentice, you're not ready to think yet. -Ranger's Apprentice

If everything is done for me... how will I ever learn?

Always move forward if you have the option.

We all have differing levels of ability. What we must do is make the most of what we've got.

I see your capacity for addition has improved

I can see now why Halt enjoyed having apprentices. Should have taken one on long ago myself.

The purpose of Jesus is not only to save men from their sins, but by the grace of God to begin in the souls of men that marvelous development in the nature and mind and understanding of God our Father, until by the grace of God we are able to take our place and our part in the kingdom of Jesus Christ and bear our share of responsibility.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.

GREAT ADVANCES DO NOT COME OUT OF SYSTEMS DESIGNED TO PRODUCE GREAT ADVANCES.