Quotes About Growth

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

To err is human

Averse alike to flatter, or offend; Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend.

Some who grow dull religious straight commence And gain in morals what they lose in sense.

A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

To shoot is human, to make your own bullets is divine. Let's be honest, we were all beginners at one point or another.

But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

Een mens moet zich nooit schamen te bekennen dat hij ongelijk had, daarmee zegt hij slechts in andere woorden dat hij vandaag wijzer is dan hij gisteren was.

Algunas personas nunca aprenden nada, porque todo lo comprenden demasiado pronto.

While, from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold, with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise!

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

The goal is not to destroy technology in some neo-Luddite delusion but to push technology into a hypertrophic state, further than it is meant to go. (...) We must scale up, not unplug. Then, during the passage of technology into this injured, engorged, and unguarded condition, it will be sculpted anew into something better, something in closer agreement with the real wants and desires of its users.

It was his nature to blossom into song, as it is a tree's to leaf itself in April.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.

As we grow in disciplined, self-sacrificing love, so we will grow in intercessory prayer. Superficially fervent prayers devoid of such love are finally phony, hollow, shallow.5

If we expect to challenge the hearts and minds of men and women of the next generation, our hearts and minds must be challenged also. We cannot influence people for God if we are not learning, changing, and growing. Teachers who love God and love to study his Word reproduce this love in others.

Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession

It took years of keeping journals to trust a simple fact: like life in transit, the writing inside is often fragmented, messy.