Advancement Quotes

228 quotes by 207 authors

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary… — Niels Bohr
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health… — Christopher Bond
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his… — Jean de la Bruyere
No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization… — William S. Burroughs
Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do. — Clarence Clemons
The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the… — George Washington
The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is… — Robert Green Ingersoll
An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . . — Arthur Conan Doyle
Achieving vulnerability-based trust (where team members have overcome their need for invulnerability) is difficult because in the course of career advancement and education, most successful… — Patrick Lencioni
A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for… — Eric Hoffer
I remember that after that teaching given to me as a young man, as a boy, almost, by the President of the Church. I read… — Heber J. Grant
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear:… — Algernon Sidney
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. — Humphry Davy
Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend. — Samuel Johnson
The general mental qualification necessary for scientific advancement is that which is usually denominated "common sense," though added to this, imagination, induction, and trained logic,… — Joseph Henry
It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from… — Francis Bacon
We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement… — Richard Willstatter
The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll
A political convention is after all not a meeting of a corporation's board of directors; it is a fiesta, a carnival, a pig-rooting, horse-snorting, band-playing,… — Norman Mailer

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