growth Quotes

To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.

Here and elsewhere we shall not obtain the best insight into things until we actually see them growing from the beginning.

The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region,... ...

He who sees things grow from the beginning will have the best view of them.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there... ...