Progress Quotes - Page 17

To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress.

[T]he Constitution was a product of its times. [Progressive]

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

Substantial progress was made in spreading our foreign trade to other areas. Our total trade with Northwest Europe in the first 8 months of last year was 42.3 per cent above the corresponding period the year previous, and our total trade with Asia was up 13.5 per cent. For the first time since 1919, the United States in the first 8 months of 1956 accounted for less than 60 percent of our total trade.

life is a work in progress.

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress.

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.

So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live not "happily" but less unhappily in this world, ought to be indifferent to the Theosophist-Occultist. It is no concern of his whether his help benefits a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, without stopping to philosophize.

It's not so much for me where you come from, who you are, what race you are. We're just human beings that are still a work in progress and there's a lot that we've got to overcome, so that we can all be equal.

All progress means war with society.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Where there is no struggle, there is absolutely no progress

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of knowledge produces a more rapid rate of progress, whilst the accumulation of capital leads to a lower rate of interest. Capital thus checks it own accumulation: knowledge thus accelerates its own advance. Each generation, therefore, to deserve comparison with its predecessor, is bound to add much more largely to the common stock than that which it immediately succeeds.

We're all works of art in progress.