Quotes About Progress

The enemy of learning is knowing.

The more you know the more you need to learn.

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

Real education is about revolution.

I learn, I earn.

It is a shame that the very people who used education to clamber out of the disadvantages they had grown up in, have drawn up the ladder after them.

If you educate a man you educate a person but if you educate a woman you educate a family.

The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out so it accumulates through the years.

Equality in education is my number one battle.

I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in special education. My teachers didn't have very much faith in me.

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

Emotional luggage nothing of it, I don't check bags, I just carry on, leave that bullshit in the past

Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.

Use pain as a stepping stone, not a camp ground.

Think of today as an opportunity to discover and grow beyond your mental and emotional discomfort.

For some reason, humans have this funny thing about where we came from - it always has far more emotional weight than where we are.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

I look at emotional pain as something we need to go through in order to grow and learn.

After the miners' rally, when I saw how emotional everyone got when I sang, I thought I might get somewhere with singing

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

Dripping water hollows out a stone

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.