Quotes about Development

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.

People are not perfect—that is, they do not yet express externally their internal perfection.

Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow.

Our children are not extensions of ourselves. We did not create them; God did. We are here to supervise their development, not dictate their reality. They are their own beings.

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

Spiritual discipline: any activity I do by direct effort that will help me do what I cannot now do by direct effort.

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

It is therefore not of small moment whether we are trained from adulthood in one set of habits or another; on the contrary it is of very great, or rather supreme importance.

And therefore, if the earlier forms of society are natural, so is the state, for it is the end of them, and the [completed] nature is the end. For what each thing is when fully developed, we call its nature, whether we are speaking of a man, a horse, or a family. Besides, the final cause and end of a thing is the best, and to be self-sufficing is the end and the best.

Learning begins at the level of the learner.

Imitation is natural to man from childhood, one of his advantages over the lower animals being this, that he is the most imitative creature in the world, and learns at first by imitation.