Improvement

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to who

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending