Developmental Stages Quotes

Give me a child for the first 7 years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

A fetus is no more a human than an acorn is a tree.

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more developed, more evolved, more adequate.

When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.

The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?

We were not always 70, or rather our 70 is an accumulation of all the other ways we were. Our 5-year-old selves became our 10-year-old selves, and so on and on; and if we unpack our selves, the full album appears. Every moment is a part of the following moment, and we are all a continuum.

Ontogeny re-capitulates phylogeny.

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

Growing up means :propelling yourself forward into whatever lies ahead, one turn of the wheel at a time.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

I thought, "Well, I'm writing about early childhood, so maybe it would make sense to write about late childhood as well, early adulthood." Those were my thoughts, and this was how this crazy book [Winter Journal] was composed. I've never seen a book with pictures like at the end, pictures related to things you've read before.

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.