Quotes About Development

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessor.

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The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities

Every day, and in every way, I am becoming better and better.

The progress of a science is proven by the progress toward solution of the problems it treats.

It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

As long as one remains curious, one makes progress; it is when you think you know everything that you are actually out of date.

Make a change today that will serve you for many more years.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

The difference between a fixed and growth mindset, how your mindset impacts your personal growth and success, and why a growth mindset is the one you should adopt. Practical strategies to cultivate a growth mindset, from daily habits to overcoming obstacles.

The essence of a civilised age is, that administration requires the continued aid of legislation.

At any rate, the pre-historic times were spent in making men capable of writing a history, and having something to put in it when it is written, and we can see how it was done.

Probably if we had historic records of the ante-historic ages—if some superhuman power had set down the thoughts and actions of men ages before they could set them down for themselves—we should know that this first step in civilization was the hardest step. But when we come to history as it is, we are more struck with the difficulty of the next step.

Our habitual instructors, our ordinary conversation, our inevitable and ineradicable prejudices tend to make us think that "Progress" is the normal fact in human society, the fact which we should expect to see, the fact which we should be surprised if we did not see. But history refutes this. The ancients had no conception of progress; they did not so much as reject the idea; they did not even entertain the idea.

In a thousand cases—in the great majority of cases—the progress of mankind has been arrested in this its earliest shape; it has been closely embalmed in a mummy-like imitation of its primitive existence.

A Nation will only progress if it's youth moves towards education and will destroy if it's youth leaves the way of education.

In every development, just or false, real or imaginary, collective or individual, it is always the first step, the first act that is the most difficult. That step once taken, the rest follows naturally as a necessary consequence.

The immense advantage of positive science over theology, metaphysics, politics, and judicial right consists in this—that, in place of the false and fatal abstractions set up by these doctrines, it posits true abstractions which express the general nature and logic of things, their general relations, and the general laws of their development.

The more fully the individual is developed, the greater his freedom.

Truth and justice, on the contrary, are the least universal, the youngest features in the development of human society.

Three elements or, if you like, three fundamental principles constitute the essential conditions of all human development, collective or individual, in history: (1) human animality; (2) thought; and (3) rebellion. To the first properly corresponds social and private economy; to the second, science; to the third, liberty.

Every development, I have said, implies the negation of its point of departure.

Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.