Progress Quotes

All our inventions and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force.

The secret of making progress is to get started.

Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire.

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.

I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently, his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.

Adversity is the mother of progress.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

The tree the tempest with a crash of woodThrows down in front of us is not to barOur passage to our journey's end for good,But just to ask us who we think we are.

The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy.

Never be discouraged, because every wrong turn attempt, when left behind you, is another step forward taking you closer to your goals.

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead.

True progress is slow but sure.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.