Quotes About Growth

What flying teaches you is to overcome fear with knowledge.

It's not just the adage 'write what you know,' it's about gathering up all of the knowledge and experience you've collected up to now to help you dive into the things you don't know.

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives.

Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.

Knowledge must come through action.

I am gentle with myself, knowing that I am doing the best I can with the knowledge and understanding I have

Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.

The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.

With knowledge grows doubt.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.