Progress Quotes - Page 68

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing toward a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, that they have just had a splendid escape from another madhouse. Thus, hundreds of people become Socialists, not because they have tried Socialism and found it nice, but because they have tried Individualism and found it particularly nasty.

Progress is the mother of all problems.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

Progress in art does not consist in reducing limitations, but in knowing them better.

Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a word or idea, but is really some stronger material source.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

All progress comes from the creative minority.

Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.

Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible.

Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.

Nothing lasts. So it's my belief, yes, I know a lot of the things that we liked didn't last, but maybe things we don't like, they're also not going to last. There has been progress in my lifetime. There are certainly things that are better than when I was young, and there are things that are worse. New York City, it's worse. There's no question.

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.

Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.

In order to progress, radio need only go backward, to the time when singing commercials were not allowed on news reports, when there was no middle commercial on a news report, when radio was rather proud, alert and fast.

Even one justice can advance or reverse the progress of our journey.

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.