Progress Quotes - Page 27

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

The beauty of progress is that it makes it easier for you to carve out a space to be nonproductive.

Nobody has the right to shield any idea as so sacred it can’t be challenged. ... Almost all human progress is driven by people who stood up and said ‘I disagree’ with this idea that society at the time considered to be the most precious.’

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

The greatest progress that the human race has made lies in learning how to make correct inferences.

The whole point of science is that most of it is uncertain. That's why science is exciting--because we don't know. Science is all about things we don't understand. The public, of course, imagines science is just a set of facts. But it's not. Science is a process of exploring, which is always partial. We explore, and we find out things that we understand. We find out things we thought we understood were wrong. That's how it makes progress.

The freedom of thought is a sacred right of every individual man, and diversity will continue to increase with the progress, refinement, and differentiation of the human intellect.

Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

I believe there's an emerging American majority for progressive economic change.

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.

Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.

Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.

Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask for money or material things. A third will request liberation or release from his bondage. And the fourth will not ask for anything. He will just enjoy praying and praising his Lord. That is the highest form of prayer. (Beyond Word, 119)

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.

The world is for newness, not for oldness. New, new things we have to create. Then only the world will progress. If not, we will come to feel that there is nothing new under the sun. We have to create new things to keep our joy. If there is no newness, how can we have enthusiasm? And if there is no enthusiasm, do we make any progress?

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

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