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Progress Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
- All progress means war with society.
- Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of…
- Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts…
- In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever…
- Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.
- All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
- Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
- Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't…
- The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
- All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting…
- The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society…
- A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool…
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable…
- Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
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
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up… — Jean Baudrillard
- Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. — W. E. B. Du Bois
- 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
- Suffer me never to think that I have knowledge enough to need no teaching, wisdom enough to need no correction, talents enough… — Eric Milner-White
- People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are… — John Kenneth Galbraith
- Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits… — John F. Kennedy