Progress Quotes

I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negro...

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established...

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and sti...

Change is scientific, ‘progress’ is ethical. Change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of c...

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of ...

The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by...

That is the idea -- that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It se...

[Americans] were, for one thing, so smitten with the idea of progress that they invented things with...

Science is the best idea humans have ever had.

Progress is learning to control your world.

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never fel...

There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very ma...

There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. Yo...

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

We all want progress, but if you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walki...

Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, th...

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if yo...

Have you no idea of progress, of development?""I have seen them both in an egg," said Caspian. "We c...

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me...

Let's see if I got this right," she would say to herself. "I've taken an inert gas that's in the air...

I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and ...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred...

it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of h...

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested...

The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of prop...

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit...

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or...

Presuming that there is such a thing as "progress" when it comes to music, and that music is "better...

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I le...

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that Afric...

London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly...

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the t...

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of pe...

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws op...

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach but it is unlikely to produc...

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shout...

And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.

I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like al...

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopu...

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to ...

Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human na...

I sit here as the first African-American attorney general, serving the first African-American Presid...

If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith ...

Never confuse movement with action.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his li...

Woe to him who becomes useless to human progress!

Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agita...

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to inc...

Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the mu...

It is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize human...

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with ...

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general ...

To reach a port we must set sail –Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is wh...

The initial animosity between divergent approaches can be overcome if we realize that each has somet...

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other p...

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate...

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Every past is worth condemning.

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes vir...

Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new...

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

There was something very American about this ability to dwell constantly in the realm of the improva...

War is progress, peace is stagnation

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the com...

A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the...

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anythin...

[Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anythi...

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all ...

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the...

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutio...

The main secret of his progress, the secret of all wisdom, was, that with him action was the beginni...

It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men...