Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, Can a person lay a new foundation every day? The old man replied, If you work hard,… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Change is not always progress.... A fever of newness had been everywhere confused with the spirit of progress. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he… — Shelby D. Hunt Copy Share Image
Football is not always going to be a good rise and you are not going to progress all the time, you are… — James Ward-Prowse Copy Share Image
Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
We Americans are tempted to distinguish ourselves from other current and former inhabitants of this planet by assuming that we are ruled… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
Time and progress are synonymous terms--nothing can stop either. Truth will prevail and that is why I know that my teachings will… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
Those who are strong realize that life is too short to hold anger against people, because holding onto these ill feelings will… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Cookery is the art of preparing food for the nourishment of the body. Prehistoric man may have lived on uncooked foods, but… — Fannie Farmer Copy Share Image
“Those whom nature destined to make her disciples have no need of teachers. Bacon , Descartes , Newton — these tutors of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that… — Ann Powers Copy Share Image
Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not… — Bhumibol Adulyadej Copy Share Image
New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My biggest worry is that no one seems to notice that we are not going to stop the technical progress that is… — Harper Reed Copy Share Image
If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will… — Norm Phelps Copy Share Image
I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and… — Jake Busey Copy Share Image
Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not… — Ben Dreyfuss Copy Share Image
Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
Lucifer represents.. Life.. Thought.. Progress.. Civilization.. Liberty.. Independence.. Lucifer is the Logos.. the Serpent, the Savior. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
One of the good things about consulting is that you leave the writers' room for a couple of days, things progress, you… — Marti Noxon Copy Share Image
If we continue to cut something with each resolution, I would say we're making steady progress and sending a strong conservative message. — Chuck Fleischmann Copy Share Image
“Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most successful teachers in low-income communities operate like successful leaders. They establish a vision of where their students will be performing… — Wendy Kopp Copy Share Image
The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in… — Nat Friedman Copy Share Image
My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better… — James Thayer Copy Share Image