Quotes About Growth

...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

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

The man of knowledge acquires something new everyday, and the man of Tao lets go of something new every day.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him.

Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.

...I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.

One agonizing journey down the gauntlet of youth is enough for any man.

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.

Spring makes everything young again except man.

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.

A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

We do not need men and women from other planets to develop India. Our people, our youth are skilled.

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation

We are men and our lot in life is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.