Human improvement is from within outward.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.

Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.

The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

Human improvement is from within outward.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing.

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

There's always room for improvement. We have a nucleus that's pretty good. You want players that will help.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.

Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement.

Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement.

Practice without improvement is meaningless.

What's really frustrating with movies is the lack of improvement.

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Improvement begins with I.

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.