Human Progress Quotes

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Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics. — Tony Blair
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer
Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in… — Christopher Columbus
...knowledge is the cause of human progress. — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being. — Marlo Morgan
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without… — William Kingdon Clifford
Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. — John Clapham
There are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on… — Edmund Ezra Day
Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it… — Grove Karl Gilbert
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if… — Philip Khuri Hitti
We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part of a system… — Rajendra K. Pachauri
These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion… — Pope Pius IX
Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And despite… — Pope John Paul II
Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to… — Edward de Bono
The most serious charge that can be brought against modern benevolence is that it encourages the perpetuation of defectives, delinquents and dependents. These are the… — Margaret Sanger
Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times. — Barbara Hambly
The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress. — Frederick Tilney
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man… — H. L. Mencken
Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they… — Charles Kettering
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress. — Ernest Renan

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