Culture Quote by Edward Abbey

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

— Fernando Pessoa

The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by…

— Bryan Procter

The intellectual life may be kept clean and healthful, if man will live the life of nature, and not import into his mind difficulties…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.

— Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis

If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the…

— Joost Meerloo

Times have changed, and science has made great progress, and so has our work; but our principles have only been confirmed, and along with…

— Maria Montessori

“What on earth would make someone a nonlearner? Everyone is born with an intense drive to learn. Infants stretch their skills daily. Not just…

— Carol S. Dweck

There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime.

— Terry Pratchett

The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later…

— Maria Montessori

>The struggle of man begins at birth

— African Proverb

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

— J. G. Holland

Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full…

— Rachel Carson