Advance Quote by Edward Gibbon Download Open image “All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.” — Edward Gibbon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advance Human
Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades. — Mme Du Deffand Copy Share Image
Something nonhuman doesn’t become human by getting older and bigger; whatever is human is human from the beginning. — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
“The system may prefer downgraded humans not because they would possess any superhuman knacks, but because they would lack some really disturbing human qualities… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Not every advance is progress. Not every new thing is better for us humanly. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle. — Jane Wagner Copy Share Image
“Retrograde time is forward time which has passed the turning point; then as it turns back it is freighted with the load of accumulated… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings fail to… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling… — Vernon A. Walters Copy Share Image
It's more common than not that bipolar illness will start in the teens. One of the reasons I spend a lot of time on… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
My priority in life is my whanau, followed by my work as an artist, which has blessed me with the ability to provide opportunities… — Cliff Curtis Copy Share Image
Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I think it's important to earn your fan base and not just try to immediately advance to the top. If you ride to the… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
The Chinese public is deeply nationalist, which matters to China's unelected political leadership as much as U.S. nationalism does to American politicians. As China… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
Some might complain that nuclear disarmament is little more than a dream. But that ignores the very tangible benefits disarmament would bring for all… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow. — Ralph W. Sockman Copy Share Image
In times of failing health, don't hopelessly pray for the intervention of a mythical god; wish hopefully for an advance in medical science. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
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