Progress Quotes

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Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories… — Ludwig von Mises
I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be… — Sonny Rollins
It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork? — Stanislaw Lem
To wage war on misery and to struggle against injustice is to promote, along with improved conditions, the human and spiritual progress of all men,… — Pope Paul VI
Liberty is the breath of progress. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself. — Tony Benn
The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative. — Paul Wellstone
It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to do so, is… — Thomas Huxley
We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is ! — Jorge Luis Borges
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized… — Marilyn Ferguson
Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory. — Richard P. Feynman
If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling… — Carl Sagan
The United Nations exists not merely to preserve the peace but also to make change - even radical change - possible without violent upheaval. The… — Ralph Bunche
America's leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn… — Saint Augustine
Progress is often equal to the difference between mind and mindset. — N. R. Narayana Murthy
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. — Confucius
When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from one place to… — Harold Bridgwood Walker
When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry… — Frances O'Grady

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