Quotes About Progress

Men have passed on the knowledge of how to mix cement, lay brick, splice a line, navigate a ship, make steel, and dozens of other crafts, yet in politics, statecraft, and social relationships we continue to repeat old mistakes.

Must one seek something? I seek to be seeking, as I learn to be learning. Each book is an adventure as is each day's horizon.

the world has always needed is more heretics and less authority.

I like them all. There's bits and pieces of books that I think are good. I never rework a book. I'd rather use what I've learned on the next one, and make it a little bit better. The worst of it is that I'm no longer a kid and I'm just now getting to be a good writer. Just now.

Yet when two peoples come together that one which is most efficient will survive, and the other will absorb or vanish Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is the way of life.

All that was long ago, and a mill does not turn upon water that is past, nor does a ship sail with the winds of yesterday.

A walking man will kick the grass down in the direction of travel, but a horse with the swinging movements of its hoofs will knock the grass down so it points in the direction from which it has come.

When there are no new ideas things can remain the same

I know only that civilizations seem to be like people. They are born, they grow to maturity, then they age and lose their vitality and they die, only to be born again in later years.

History is best made by men with hands. Brains are well enough, but count for nothing without the hands to build, to bring to fulfilment.

And at night," I added, "a man is too tired. I fall asleep over my books, but we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. Shaping a country is not all done with the hands but with the mind as well.

the town of Sentinel was becoming vital, acquiring a consciousness of the future, a sense of belonging. A strong land growing, a land which would give birth to strong sons who could build and plant and harvest. Fitz

gradualism in theory, is perpetuity in practice.

All that can be expected from modern improvements is that legislation should easily and quickly, yet not too quickly, modify itself in accordance with the will of the de facto supreme power in the community

When you spend your whole life living in a hole," he said, "the only way you can go is up.

He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.

The piles were a lot bigger than his hole was deep.

She said his life would be like walking upstream in a rushing river. The secret was to take small steps and just keep moving forward. If he tried to take too big a step, the current would knock him off his feet and carry him back downstream.

Well, not exactly. I got a C-minus on the paper I wrote about my idea for the ergie. So then

When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up.

Small steps, Hand in hand we'll walk together, And maybe we'll discover A clue along the way. . . .

Take a train, peanut brain

civilization?

In a few years, Camp Greenlake will be a girl scout camp.