Progress Quotes

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Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Retirement is a work in progress. I try to figure out my day, and what I know about myself is that I need structure. — Pete Sampras
All of us face challenges in our daily lives. Yet in challenges lie some of our greatest opportunities. As we recognize and act on our… — H. David Burton
We should learn to be patient with ourselves. Recognizing our strengths and our weaknesses, we should strive to use good judgment in all of our… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
You have as great an opportunity for satisfaction in the performance of your duty as I do in mine. The progress of this work will… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end. — Milan Kundera
Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first… — Anatole France
Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order. — Mikhail Gorbachev
Life means progress, and progress means suffering. — Hendrik Willem van Loon
The face of the angel of history is turned toward the past. Where we perceived a chain of events, he sees a single catastrophe which… — Walter Benjamin
"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It… — Hermann Hesse
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
World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. — Stephen Jay Gould
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows… — John Jay Chapman
The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress. — Ernest Renan
My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't… — Charles Baudelaire
Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished. — Daniel Gilbert
Each one of us will travel a different road during this life. Each progresses at a different rate. Temptations that trouble your brother may not… — Joseph B. Wirthlin

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