Quotes About Growth

he sees immortal blackberry bushes, darkened by the sun, clinging to the rocks with their long shoots.

If something hurts me, I erase it from my mental map. Places where I stumbled, fell, where I was struck down, cut to the quick, where things were painful—such places are simply not there any longer. This means I've gotten rid of several big cities and one whole province. Maybe someday I'll eliminate a country.

j'ai pris conscience que ce qui est en mouvement – en dépit de ses dangers – sera toujours meilleur que ce qui est immobile, et que le changement sera toujours quelque chose de plus noble que l'invariance ; car ce qui stagne est voué inévitablement à la dégénérescence, à la décomposition et, en fin de compte, au néant, alors que tout ce qui évolue saura durer, et même éternellement.

Children are soft and supple, open-minded and unpretentious.

We speak of grown-ups being "tall," but a child is "long.

If you think you are capable of destruction, think how you could build.

Knowledge that is grown only on the outside changes nothing inside a man, or merely changes him on the surface, as one garment is changed for another. But he who learns by taking things inside himself undergoes constant transformation, because he incorporates what he learns into his being.

Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmna?amy j? jak moje warzywa czy jab?onki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion.

He who stops being better stops being good.

The good man suffers but to gain, And every virtue springs from pain; As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

A tree grows into the air because it grows out of the air. The bulk of the tree is not made from the soil beneath- indeed, the soil is in large part made by the tree. Both soil and tree are made from the sun and wind and rain. The land is just a place to stand.

It is obvious,' wrote Vogt, 'that fifty years hence the world cannot support three billion people at any but coolie standards

At 11, I could say 'I am sodium' (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

Some men never recover from education.

To fail is not tragic. To be human, is.

A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.

One's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its orginal dimensions.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

The Amen of nature is always a flower.