Quotes About Growth

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally.

Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

As I've gotten older, I've found that I can have men as friends. I used to not be able to.

There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom... lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

Man must become better and more evil.

You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game

True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

Education is an asset no man can take away.

If a good man thrive, all thrive with him.

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

ThereÂ's no easier way to cure foolishness than to give a man leave to be foolish. And the only way to show a fellow that heÂ's chosen the wrong business is to let him try it.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.