Quotes About Development

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

Progress is impossible without change

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

My advice: just keep movin' straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.

The future will soon be a thing of the past.

If free trade can really turn all these Third World countries into thriving economies full of entrepreneurs and investors, who's gonna clean the fuckin' toilets around here?

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed

After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Our consiousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us anymore than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

As the child's mind was growing into knowledge, his mind was growing into memory: as her life unfolded, his soul, long stupefied in a cold, narrow prison, was unfolding too, and trembling gradually into full consciousness.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos.—In fact, the world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome dubious eggs called possibilities.

character is not cut in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable.

Mas, minha querida Mrs. Casaubon (...) -, o carácter não é uma peça de mármore... não é algo de sólido e inalterável. É algo que está vivo e se transforma, e pode adoecer, como também acontece com o nosso corpo.

a fresh young nature to which every variety in experience is an epoch.

One can begin so many things with a new person!— even begin to be a better man.

Even Caesar's fortune at one time was, but a grand presentiment. We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos.--In fact, the world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome dubious eggs called possibilities.

In those days the world in general was more ignorant of good and evil by forty years than it is at present

Choice is the strongest principle of growth.