Progress Quotes

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work

The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being.

Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

Rules are foolish, arbitrary, mindless things that raise you quickly to a level of acceptable mediocrity, then prevent you from progressing further.

Self-conceit is the enemy of progress.

While I am rehearsing a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

I see a little progress, ... So as long as I keep seeing that, then I'm willing to give him everything I've got.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

Progress is made where progress is measured.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.

Despite all our toil and progress, the art of medicine still falls somewhere between trout casting and spook writing.

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

There is no progress in art.

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization

How can the world progress if women don't consider men ... the Man ... first?

On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.

The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free.

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.