Quotes
Quotes about Progress
It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.
An elegant sufficiency, content,
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books,
Ease and alternate labour, useful life,
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!
From Helicon's harmonious springs
A thousand rills their mazy progress take.
A man's ingress into the world is naked and bare,
His progress through the world is trouble and care;
And lastly, his egress out of the world, is nobody knows where.
If we do well here, we shall do well there:
I can tell you no more if I preach a whole year.
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress. To those who fully admit the immortality of the human soul, the destruction of our world will not appear so dreadful.
Progress is
The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are;
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
A race that binds
Its body in chains and calls them Liberty,
And calls each fresh link Progress.
Life is the apprenticeship to progressive renunciation, to the steady diminution of our claims, of our hopes, of our powers, of our liberty.
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
The progress of the world is the history of men who would not
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its means.
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.
A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure." - H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
