Quotes About Growth

We all know Aesop's fable of the dog who dropped a piece of meat to grasp at its reflection in the water. We must not, however, judge too severely of error. In the initial stages of mental progress, error in symbolic reference is the discipline which promotes imaginative freedom.

the major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur

In some measure or other, progress is always a transcendence of what is obvious.

It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur :—like unto an arrow in the hand of a child.

I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the fastest.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself

Impara tutto ciò che ti è possibile dagli errori degli altri. Non avrai tempo a sufficienza per farli tutti.

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

If love were what the rose is,And I were like the leaf,Our lives would grow togetherIn sad or singing weather.

If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together, In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or flowerful closes, Green pleasure or grey grief; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf.

Indeed, both the scholar and the student share the prosperity.

Both professor and student share in the pursuit of excellence and perfection.

Critics are best motivators.

A Muslim will never get tired and bored of educating himself throughout his life.

To whatever extent a person's knowledge increases, his attention will be turned more towards his soul.

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.

embrase imperfection

But to sustain a marriage for 50 years, you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says, 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

Words are themselves organisms, ...

Cut this tree I'm living in down. Hollow its trunk out. Make me all over again, with what you scooped out of its insides. Slide the new me back inside the old trunk. Burn me. Burn the tree. Spread the ashes, for luck, where you want next year's crops to grow. Birth me and the tree Next summer's sun Midwinter guarantee

It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.

You've got to use every moment. Because in the blink of an eye it's past you, and you never get your time again. Forgive me, Grace, Charlotte said smiling, but I think that's rubbish. I believe we meet our times with our full and ready selves at whatever ages we are when the times happen to us. That's what it's all about.