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Progress Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 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.
- 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…
- Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.
- 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…
- Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.
- The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.
- 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…
- None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
- I still hold. . .that the suburbs ought to be either glorified by romance and religion or else destroyed by fire from heaven, or even…
- The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go…
- To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.
- This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.
- The past is not what it was.
- Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.
- Progress is the mother of problems.
- The modern world has far too little understanding of the art of keeping young. Its notion of progress has been to pile one thing on…
- If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not…
- Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
- Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.
- When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only…
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