Progress Quotes - Page 61

Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

The greatest progress in life is when you know your limitations, and then you have the courage to drop them.

Even marginal progress could be affected by investigations in Little Rock and in Washington.

Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it

Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.

Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.

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

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

Therefore, be islands unto yourselves. Be your own refuge. Have recourse to none else for refuge. Hold fast to the Dharma as a refuge. Resort to no other refuge. Whosoever, either now or after I am gone, shall be islands unto themselves, shall seek no eternal refuge, it is they, among my disciples who shall reach the very topmost height! But they must be keen to progress.

Ethical progress is the only cure for the damage done by scientific progress.

The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

In the final analysis, the progress of our civilization will be retarded if any large body of citizens falls behind. Without the help of thousands of others, any one of us would die, naked and starved.

Row on [whatever happens]. [Lat., Vogue la galere.]

In the very progress of society, the prison has in the very nature of things undergone some improvement, but there are vast stretches yet to be covered before the prison becomes, if it ever does, an institution for the reclamation and rehabilitation of erring and unfortunate men and women.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

You have to stick to your goals of progress.

Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of eliminating, religious faiths. But certainly not eliminating the natural yearnings of our species or the asking of these great questions.

But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.

Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.

The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society.