Michio Kaku Quotes

The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries - the notion that, with the right tools, the right approach, the right attitude, we might become better, smarter versions of ourselves.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.

I've got to start using my brain more - I've got to be more ethereal and more enlightened.

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.

It's impossible to be perfect, and you won't do a good job if you're too focused on proving yourself to others.

The very first instrument for the improvement of the condition of men is knowledge.

I want to become the best I can be and be at my best for a good number of years.

I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'

I think you can improve on everything; you're never perfect.

Man is improvable. Some people think he is only a machine, and that the only difference between a man and a mill is, that one is carried by blood and the other by water.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

Everything I do is to become better, the best ever and I'm not going to stop.

If I wait until I become perfect before I love myself, I will waste my whole life. I am already perfect right here and right now. I am perfect exactly as I am.

I'm a perfectionist, so it's hard for me to just accept that that I can't keep working until it's perfected. But I'm learning, I'm growing as a human in that way.

Be at your best at all times.

We have to make ourselves as perfect as we can.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.

When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer, so you can learn how to draw better!

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

Working toward perfection is not a one time decision but a process to be pursued throughout one's lifetime.