Quotes About Expansion

The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

Man's mind and spirit grow with the space in which they are allowed to operate.

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless.

The man who never reads lives only one.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.

New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.

War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.

Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.

appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing.

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

No matter what your spiritual condition is, no matter where you find yourself in the universe, your choice is always the same: to expand your awareness or contract it.

Perhaps many of us do not like it where we are in the Universe right now, but we can all be certain that we got where we are by our own decisions to expand in love or withdraw from it.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Beware of the person of one book.

Islam had, from its earliest days, embraced warfare. Muhammad himself prosecuted a series of military campaigns while subjugating Mecca, and the explosive expansion of the Muslim world during the seventh and eighth centuries was fuelled by an avowed devotional obligation to spread Islamic rule. The union of faith and violence within the Muslim religion, therefore, was more rapid and natural than that which gradually developed in Latin Christianity.