Unluckily for the man of tender mind, he is quite incapable of any such easy dismissal of the great plagues and conundrums of existence. It is of the essence of his character that he is too sensitive and sentimental to put them ruthlessly out of his mind: he cannot view even the crunching of a […]
Improve Quotes
Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
Improvement and the world will expire together; And till that period arrives, we may plunder the mine, but can never exhaust it! That ‘We have found out everything,’ has been the motto of every age. Let our ideas travel a little into antiquity, and we shall find larger portions of it than now; and so […]
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head – and hands.
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
You know, we can talk sometimes about managing our own evolution. About cloning people. About deciding how with genetic engineering we’re going to improve ourselves. But how do we improve ourselves? We don’t know. We’ve improved domestic animals a great way. We’ve got cows that give milk by the hundreds of gallons. We’ve got sheep […]
Acorns were good until bread was found.
