| "A new vision of development is emerging. development is becoming a people-centered process, whose ultimate goal must be the improvement of the human condition." »Boutros Boutros-Ghali |
| "Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice." »Elizabeth Cady Stanton |
| "The secret of eternal youth is arrested development." »Alice Roosevelt Longworth |
| "The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development." »Confucius |
| "The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for." »Oscar Wilde |
| "Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit." »M Scott Peck |
| "There are two things which cannot be attacked in front ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion." »Emerich Edward Dalbert |
| "Rigidly organized pre-school classrooms, which value obedience more than development, create the deficits in poor children, imposing a self-image of marginality and failure." »Valerie Polakow |
| "If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost 100, get one million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside." »Robert X Cringely |
| "There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction." »John Dewey |
| "A world in which others controlled the course of their own development ... would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered." »Benjamin Cohen |
| "Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development." »Dorothy L. Sayers |
| "Any power must be an enemy of mankind which enslaves the individual by terror and force, whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded to the individual." »Albert Einstein |
| "Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's." »Roosevelt, Eleanor |
| "Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years." »John Burroughs |
| "Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation -- what are they They are the happiest people in the world." »William Lyon Phelps |
| "All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods." »Victor Cousin |
| "Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research." »Marie Curie |
| "If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths." »Alexis Carrel |
| "The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle." »Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin |
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