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Progress Quotes by Bertrand Russell
- The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand…
- Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
- All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public…
- The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.
- I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in…
- I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
- A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with…
- Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both…
- You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step…
- There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels?…
- An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might…
- A process which led from the amoebae to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amoebae would agree…
More Progress Quotes
- It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the… — Teresa of Avila
- Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that… — Mark Twain
- The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered… — L. Harrison Matthews
- Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race. — L. Ron Hubbard
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- The biggest barrier we've seen to student progress is this: School policies and practices often prevent good teachers from doing great work… — Eli Broad
- My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton