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Progress Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.
- What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity…
- Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress,…
- The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.
- Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.
- Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or…
- Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time…
- Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
- Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more,…
- Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through…
- The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the…
- Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
- A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which…
- It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
- A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions.…
- What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
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
- All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that… — Mark Twain
- Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race. — L. Ron Hubbard
- Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde
- 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
- 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