Progress Quotes

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I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself and hear Him… — Francis Frangipane
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. — James Freeman Clarke
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were… — George MacDonald
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over. — Ramana Maharshi
Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of… — Jacques Maritain
I know that certain minds would regard as audacious the idea of relating the laws which preside over the play of our organs to those… — Francois Magendie
Nothing drives progress like the imagination. The idea precedes the deed. The only exceptions are accidents and natural selection. — Theodore Levitt
Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order. — Sydney Brenner
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all… — Immanuel Kant
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is… — Karl Popper
The mind's direction is more important than its progress. — Joseph Joubert
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to… — Karl Kraus
The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go… — Radhanath Swami
Medicine has made all its progress during the past fifty years. ... How many operations that are now in use were known fifty years ago?-they… — Mark Twain
Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil? — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them. — Margaret Thatcher
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved. — John Bardeen
Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a… — E F Schumacher
We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that… — B. H. Liddell Hart

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