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Letter "D" » development
«What is virtue? It is to hold yourself to your fullest development as a person and as a responsible member of the human community»
Author: Arthur Dobrin
| About:
Humanity,
Virtue
| Keywords:
community, development, fullest, human development, member
«Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
development, drop, identities, identity, independent, joins, ocean, unlike
«To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
cast, cast about, cast on, development, display, energy, faculties, fortune, lap, Lapped, lapping, laps, previously, resources, thrown, undergo, undergone, underwent, unsusceptible
«Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, ''Lighthouses'' as the poet said ''erected in the sea of time'.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
Bankers, civilization, companions, development, engines, erected, erecting, erects, lighthouse, lighthouses, magicians, out of print, poet, print, prints, sea, sea change, teachers, The Lighthouse, The Magician, The Sea, treasures, windows
«The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Government,
Politics
| Keywords:
development, institutions, insure, insured, insures, insuring, justifiable, political, political institutions, unhindered
«The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.»
Author: Confucius
| Keywords:
base, baser, basest, development, fundamental, moral, perfecting, progress
«The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Communication,
Funny,
Internet
| Keywords:
call waiting, communication, development, History of, Human communication, human development, internet, invention, The History, The History of, The Internet
«To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Experience
| Keywords:
arrest, arrested development, arresting, arrests, denial, denials, denial of, deny, development, experiences, less than, lips, regret
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