Robert M. Hutchins Quotes

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

I want to know who you are as a person, and then I want you to develop as a whole human being.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

We all want to not repeat ourselves constantly, and explore the limits of our capabilities.

In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.