“But come, hear my words, for truly learning causes the mind to grow. For as I said before in declaring the ends of my words: Twofold is the truth I shall speak; for at one time there grew to be the one alone out of many, and at another time it separated so that there were many out of the one; fire and water and earth and boundless height of air, and baneful Strife apart from these, balancing each of them, and Love among them, their equal in length and breadth.” MindSaidEndsEarthSpeakGrowsCausesWaterFireAirGrewEqualAnd LoveHeightLengthOne TimeStrifeBoundlessBreadthDeclaringAnother Time Author:Empedocles
“Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.” PeopleMadeDreamBigsOpportunityGivenNationsGrowsGoalChancePowerfulPovertyGrowing UpKnowingRichLandEqualLike MeTransformedEqual Opportunity Book:American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone Source: American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone
“Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.” MenGivingHas BeensSaidGovernmentTogetherGrowsChanceRightsShareEqualWeakStrongerExpectedIgnorantDenialWiserThey SaidViciousEqual RightsAffirmingUpward Mobility Author:Abraham Lincoln
“... there are those who believe that mathematics can sustain itself and grow without any further contact with anything outside itself, and those who believe that nature is still and always will be one of the main (if not the main) sources of mathematical inspiration. The first group is identified as "pure mathematicians" (though "purist" would be more adequate) while the second is, with equal inadequacy, referred to as "applied".” IfsFirstsBelieveStillsInspirationWould BeGrowsGroupsSourcePureEqualMathematicsContactMathematicalMathematicianAdequateInadequacy Author:Mark Kac
“I have a principle I often invoke in class: comfortable people don't grow. Good teachers need to engage in the paradox of making students feel comfortable and uncomfortable in equal measure.” PeopleNeedsFeelsGrowsClassPrinciplesTeacherStudentsEqualComfortableUncomfortableParadoxGood TeacherInvoke Author:Erica Brown
“If you will accept every call that comes to you within the Church, you will grow in a remarkable and marvelous and wonderful way. With responsibility comes growth, and the Lord will magnify you and make you equal to every responsibility which is given you.” IfsWayGivenGrowsGrowthChurchResponsibilityAcceptingLordWonderfulEqualRemarkableMarvelous Author:Gordon B. Hinckley
“Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power unhindered to the highest expression of himself possible to him.” MenWayBelieveI BelieveGrowsBornExpressionEqualHighestBraveEvery ManScratchesForefathers Book:1949-1959 Source: 1949-1959
“The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.” MenBookGrowsEqualMen And WomenConvincedContactGreat Men Book:Papers: The Autobiographical Writings Source: Papers: The Autobiographical Writings
“There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another... It is when we begin to hurt those whom we love that the guilt with which we are born becomes intolerable, and since all those whom we love intensely and continuously grow part of us, and since we hate ourselves in them, so we torture ourselves and them together.” TwoPainTogetherHateGrowsBornHurtLoversEqualGuiltTortureNo PainTwo Lovers Author:Cyril Connolly