Progress Quotes

3066 quotes by 1980 authors

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress. — Alan Perlis
... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely… — Albert Einstein
Educational progress is a national concern; education is a private one. — Nikki Giovanni
Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be… — Benjamin Franklin
I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a… — Albert Einstein
A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.''… — Woodrow Wilson
Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply… — George Orwell
The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. — Samuel Johnson
The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life. — John Donne
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
There is no greater hindrance to the progress of thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead
Our way lies not in human ingenuity, but in a return to God. — Billy Graham
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and… — Kabir
The leaves did not stir on the trees, grasshoppers chirruped, and the monotonous hollow sound of the sea rising up from below, spoke of the… — Anton Chekhov
All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Every country should realize that its turn at world domination, domination because its rights coincided more or less with the character or progress of the… — Juan Ramon Jimenez
In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to… — Eugene V. Debs
It is possible to believe in progress as a fact without believing in progress as an ethical principle; but in the catechism of many Americans,… — Norbert Wiener
What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness… — Joan Didion

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