Quotes About Growth

She was at the age when she was starting to realize that her quirks weren't just an adolescent stage or a phase, they were who she was.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise -- even in their own field.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

People think of education as something they can finish.

Youth isn't the problem—it'll pass with the years…

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

At the center of all achievement is personal growth.

Feeling uncomfortable about a situation is oftentimes the indicator that growth is about to take place.

Humans have different emotional states that are here to serve us, if anything be redirected. Not to be tamed.

My purpose on this planet is to live up to my potential, everything else just adds to the experience.

Personal development is a lifelong commitment to excellence.

To compete with your reflection, is to have already won long term.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - From a letter to Robert Hooke dated February 5th, 1676. The metaphor was first recorded in 1159 by John of Salisbury and attributed to Bernard of Chartres: Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea.

If I had seen further than others, it's because I stood upon the shoulders of giants.

If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants

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Wenn ich weiter sehen konnte, so deshalb, weil ich auf den Schultern von Riesen stand.

Wenn ich weiter als andere gesehen habe, dann nur deshalb, weil ich auf der Schulter von Giganten stand.