Quotes About Growth

Pour que dans le cerveau d'un couillon la pensée fasse un tour, il faut qu'il lui arrive beaucoup de choses et des bien cruelles.

What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?" I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? "There is time," she said, "but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.

We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselves. Too often, the way taken is the wrong way, with too much emphasis on what we want to have, rather than what we wish to become.

Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long.

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This-- I held out my hands --this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

difference between a child and an adult is not years, rather it's a willingness to accept responsibility, to be responsible for one's own actions.

A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.

The wealthy and satisfied do not migrate, they stagnate.

He realized what a fool he had been. There could be no tolerating of evil. One stamped it out or the evil grew worse.

The more one learns the more he understands his ignorance. I am simply an ignorant man, trying to lessen his ignorance.

Treat the earth kindly, my friends, and it will give you comfort, security, and all a man may need. If you plant a flake of gold in the earth, will anything come of it? But plant a seed and it will repay you many times over.

I think the greatest gift anyone can give to another is the desire to know, to understand. Life is not for simply watching spectator sports, or for taking part in them; it is not for simply living from one working day to the next. Life is for delving, discovering, learning.

This is a story of an adventure in education, pursued not under the best of conditions.

he who ceases to learn is already a half-dead man.

No man can put a rope on the past and hope to snub it down. The best thing is to learn to it ride the new trails - Kilkenny

It has seemed to me that each year one should pause to take stock of himself, to ask: Where am I going? What am I becoming? What do I wish to do and become? Most people whom I encountered were without purpose, people who had given themselves no goal. The first goal need not be the final one, for a sailing ship sails first by one wind, then another. The point is that it is always going somewhere, proceeding toward a final destination.

Actually, he said one morning, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you an education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in all the colors yourself.

he who ceases to learn is already a half-dead man. And do not be like an oyster who rests on the sea bottom waiting for the good things to come by. Search for them, find them.

One cannot begin too young nor linger too long with learning.

It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.