Progress Quotes

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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. — Albert Camus
And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand… — Benjamin Carson
I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
All progress is experimental. — John Jay Chapman
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations… — Cesar Chavez
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. — Shirley Chisholm
In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of… — Noam Chomsky
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran
I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. — B R Ambedkar
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our… — Stephen Ambrose
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. — Kofi Annan
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. — Susan B. Anthony
Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident. It is a sort of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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