Quotes About Growth

life means for us constantly to transform into light and flame all that we are or meet with";1

Life is that which is discontent, which struggles and seeks, which suffers and creates. No mechanistic account or materialistic philosophy can do it justice, or understand the silent growth and majesty of a tree, or compass the longing and laughter of children.

Do you know," asks Emerson, "the secret of the true scholar? In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him; and In that I am his pupil.

Great men speak to us only so far as we have ears and souls to hear them; only so far as we have in us the roots, at least, of that which flowers out in them.

And indeed, great men speak to us only so far as we have ears and souls to hear them; only so far as we have in us the roots, at least, of that which flowers out in them.

Si los conocimientos agrícolas existentes se aplicasen en todas partes, el planeta podría alimentar al doble de su población actual.

Religion does not prosper under prosperity;

Vanity increases with age.

Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.

Knowledge grows, but wisdom, though it can improve with years, does not progress with centuries. I cannot instruct Solomon. So, brave reader, you have fair warning: proceed at your own risk. But I shall be warmed by your company. Will Durant

Our children bring us up by showing us, through imitation, what we really are.

we must not expect the world to improve much faster than ourselves

Age has a way of giving humans a gravitas that they haven't earned. Like most people, I have essentially the same personality I had at twenty-two. But because a decade has passed since then, I'm given more authority now. I'm thought of as wiser. I'm not. The same shit will happen in another decade. I'll still be the same guy. But "wiser." And as much of an idiot as ever. I like it. I could get used to this adult business.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.   Anais Nin

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Knowledge is Life with wings

Without Contraries is no Progression.

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.

And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.

Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

To create a little flower is the labor of ages.