Quotes About Growth

The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie.

Dr Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever knew I had that. I felt proud when he said that not every body with an eye-q of 68 had that thing. I don't know what it is or where I got it but he said Algernon had it too. Algernons motor-vation is the cheese they put in his box. But it cant be that because I didnt eat any cheese last week.

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

When you mature intellectually we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally you may not even want me.

Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts most of all.

Each day I learn more and more about myself, and the memories that began as ripples now wash over me in high-breaking waves . . .

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently.

The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie. Your intellectual growth is going to outstrip your emotional growth.

That's the most important thing. If I keep reading, maybe I can hold my own.

He laughed and then he got up from his chair and went to the window. The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have, Charlie. Your intellectual growth is going to outstrip your emotional growth. And I think you'll find that as you progress, there will be many things you'll want to talk to me about. I just want you to remember that this is the place for you to come when you need help.

Results are often negative. We learn what something is not - and that is as important as a positive discovery to the man who is going to pick up from there. At least he knows what not to do.

The more intelligent you become the more problems you'll have

Sou um universo em expansão, nadando para cima em um oceano silencioso.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

Ch?ng có ai là ng??i thá»±c sá»± b?t ??u má»™t cái má»›i c? [...]. Ai cÅ©ng ??ng lên t? th?t b?i c?a ng??i khác.

It's as if all the knowledge I've soaked in during the past months has coalesced and lifted me to a peak of light and understanding. This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy.

I just want to be smart like other pepul so I can have lots of frends who like me.

Somehow I've become separated emotionally from everyone and everything. And what I was really searching for out there in the dark streets—the last damned place I could ever find it—was a way to make myself a part of people again emotionally, while still retaining my freedom intellectually. I've got to grow up. For me it means everything. . . .

Estava tudo bem enquanto eles pudessem rir de mim e parecer inteligentes à minha custa, mas agora eles se sentiam inferiores ao imbecil. Comecei a ver que, por meio do meu surpreendente crescimento, eu os fiz encolher e enfatizei suas inadequações. Eu os havia traído, e eles me odiavam por isso.

Uma criança pode não saber como se alimentar, ou o que comer, mas ela conhece a fome.

when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places.

Não sou apenas uma coisa, mas também uma maneira de ser – uma das muitas maneiras –, e saber os caminhos que percorri e os que me restam vai me ajudar a entender o que estou me tornando.

And so it went. Most of them felt the way Joe and Frank and Gimpy did. It had been all right as long they could laugh at me and appear clever at my expense, but now they were feeling inferior to the moron. I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasized their inadequacies. I had betrayed them, and they hated me for it.