Famous Quotes - Tags - Progress
- ... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and... More
- ... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same... More
- ... till women are more rationally educated, the progress of human virtue and improvement in... More
- A gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and give them all a highly... More
- A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer,... More
- A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a... More
- A radical is one of whom people say “He goes too far.” A conservative, on the other hand, is... More
- All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. More
- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond... More
- All progress is experimental. More
- All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see... More
- And let Reform her columns roll.
With thunder peal, and lightening flash.
We’ll preach... More
- As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt... More
- As with our colleges, so with a hundred “modern improvements”; there is an illusion about... More
- At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put... More
- Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made. More
- But at my back from time to time I hear
The sound of horns and motors, which shall... More
- Change is one thing, progress is another. “Change” is scientific, “progress” is ethical;... More
- come peace or war, the progress of America and Europe
Becomes a long process of deterioration— More
- Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. More
- Consider the China pride and stagnant self-complacency of mankind. This generation inclines a... More
- Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a... More
- Earth, earth
riding your merry-go-round
toward extinction,
right to the roots ... More
- Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize ... the... More
- Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning,... More
- Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the... More
- Everywhere “good men” sound a retreat, and the word has gone forth to fall back on innocence.... More
- Fellow delegates, like all of you I’ve listened in awe and admiration to the magnificent... More
- For all the injustices in our past and our present, we have to believe that in the free exchange... More
- From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world... More
- God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must... More
- Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is... More
- Have not men improved somewhat in punctuality since the railroad was invented? Do they not talk... More
- History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times,... More
- How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we... More
- How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every... More
- Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by... More
- I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of... More
- I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class. More
- I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to... More
- If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,—and I think that... More
- If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth... More
- In a thousand apparently humble ways men busy themselves to make some right take the place of... More
- In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber... More
- In my beginning is my end. In succession
Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,
Are... More
- In no nation are the institutions of progress more advanced. In no nation are the fruits of... More
- In the end we will listen to the voice of the machines. We will have to. There is no choice. We... More
- In the great and deep qualities of mind, heart, and soul, there is no change. Homer and Solomon... More
- Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the... More
- Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not... More
- It appeared that he had once represented his tribe at Augusta, and also once at Washington, where... More
- It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some... More
- It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our... More
- It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness... More
- It was the only way to progress, to stop. More
- It will be seen that we contemplate a time when man’s will shall be law to the physical world,... More
- It’s the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you’re mad, then... More
- Let us consider under what disadvantages Science has hitherto labored before we pronounce thus... More
- Let us not succumb to nature. We will marshall the clouds and restrain tempests; we will bottle... More
- Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in... More
- Locke sank into a swoon;
The Garden died;
God too the spinning-jenny
Out of his side. More
- Look at it. It was once a wilderness, now it’s a garden. Aren’t you proud? More
- Necessity makes women very weak or very strong, and pent-up rivers are sometimes dangerous. Look... More
- No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better.... More
- Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward let us range,
Let the great world spin for ever... More
- Not to go forward is to go back. More
- Nothing recedes like progress. More
- Nowadays almost all man’s improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting... More
- Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human... More
- Oh André, I get so scared sometimes. The suddenness of our age! Electronics, rockets, earth... More
- Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is... More
- Our age is pre-eminently the age of sympathy, as the eighteenth century was the age of reason.... More
- Our civilization is characterized by the word “progress.” Progress is its form rather than... More
- Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They... More
- Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing... More
- Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to... More
- pity this busy monster, manunkind,
not. Progress is a comfortable disease: More
- Progress celebrates Pyrrhic victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When... More
- Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos. More
- Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. More
- Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so... More
- Progress may feel more like loss than gain. More
- Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass. More
- Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. More
- Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there... More
- Progress, man’s distinctive mark alone,
Not God’s, and not the beasts’: God is, they... More
- Progress, this great heresy of decay. More
- Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper... More
- Seeds, there are seeds enough which need only be stirred in with the soil where they lie, by an... More
- Small things have a way of overmastering the great.... This small press can destroy a kingdom. More
- Social and scientific progress are assured, sir, once our great system of postpossession payments... More
- The aggregate of all knowledge has not yet become culture in us. Rather it would seem as if, with... More
- The door is opening. A man you have never seen enters the room.
He tells you that it is time... More
- The era of the Wild Apple will soon be past. It is a fruit which will probably become extinct in... More
- The fabulous Wizard of Oz
Retired from his racket because,
What with up-to-date... More
- The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world... More
- The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if... More
- The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back... More
- The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man’s... More
- The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever... More
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