 |
|
|
|
Quotes about progress
|
|
Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. (Obama Barack)
If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet. (Obama Barack)
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. (Obama Barack)
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. (Obama Barack)
| |
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. (Obama Barack)
All progress is experimental. (Obama Barack)
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart. (Obama Barack)
New roads; new ruts. (Obama Barack)
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life. (Obama Barack)
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. (Obama Barack)
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good. (Obama Barack)
Nothing recedes like progress. (Obama Barack)
I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy. (Obama Barack)
The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so. (Obama Barack)
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. (Obama Barack)
My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. (Obama Barack)
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another. (Obama Barack)
The walking of Man is falling forwards. (Obama Barack)
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. (Obama Barack)
With every passing hour, our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. (Obama Barack)
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter. (Obama Barack)
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos. (Obama Barack)
A lot of what appears to be progress is just so much technological rococo. (Obama Barack)
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress. (Obama Barack)
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease. (Obama Barack)
|
progress | [2] | [3]
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
