Advancement Quotes

228 Advancement quotes by 195 unique authors

Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new era. ... today's… — Tony Blair
Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement. So it is with morals and patriotism. — John Goodlad
At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men — Paul Collier
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that we find sects… — Thomas Reid
In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. It is necessary, then,… — Wallace D. Wattles
Sadat provides an important, insistent voice for continued advancement in peace and social justice. — Jehan Sadat
Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness. Religion engulfs people with a… — Taslima Nasrin
In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down. — Katherine Boo
If you take the approach that “good” is not an accident - that everyone and everything that shows up in your life is there for… — Jack Canfield
Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time,… — Hans Rosling
No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from… — Peter McWilliams
People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein.… — Adolf von Harnack
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom. — John Stuart Mill
Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to… — Akbar
The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science… — William Bligh
Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and… — William Shakespeare
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times… — Humphry Davy
Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life. — Jim Costa
Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life. — Nathan Deal
It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting… — Haile Selassie
...reasonable natures have free will, and can turn to the good or the bad voluntarily by themselves. They either attach themselves to God's will, which… — Gregory Palamas
Coercive power is the curse of the universe, coactive power, the enrichment and advancement of every human soul. — Mary Parker Follett
Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs… — Kevin Smith
It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement... — Haile Selassie
For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love and intelligence; to… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

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