Art Quote by Edmund Clarence Stedman

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.

— David Rockefeller

Since the Renaissance, a concept called 'progress' has been baked into our society. Progress - founded on an accumulation of knowledge through experience (and…

— Seth Shostak

If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.

— Nell Scovell

Progress begins with the belief that what is necessary is possible.

— Norman Cousins

“Progress is first conceived in the mind, nature and safeguard your thought patterns.”

— Wayne Chirisa

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

— William Shenstone

We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

— George Zebrowski

“Exploration and invention were the two faces on the coin of progress, and progress was the spirit of the age”

— David von Drehle

“As enunciated today, "progress" is simply a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in…

— Samuel Smiles

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

— Simone Weil