Quotes About Progress

Life will stop, but time will go on.

It is by a process of simplification carried constantly further and further that happiness is won.

They wanted eternal life; he gave them perpetual motion. It comes to the same thing, for such a race.

In the twilight of the world that we inhabit there will come to some on soft, silent wings a strange understanding: that things have not always been the way they are, and that therefore they need not always be as they have been. And Hegel says that this understanding is itself the sign that indeed the night is coming, that maybe the morning will be ours to see." Hegel

The Tale was behind them. And it was to there they journeyed. One step would take them there; they were there already

John Crowley

I've learned...that here you can never go back the way you came. That you never do anywhere. You only and always go on.

It's as though," Daily Alice said, "each day is like a step, and every step takes you further away from—well, from when things made more sense. When things were all alive, and made signs to you. And you can no more not take a step farther away than you could not live through a day." "I

if no changes were necessary for you to achieve financial independence, you'd already be there.

A successful life is a string of successful days

Already we see a trend in our own technological societies towards the fabrication of smaller and smaller machines that consume less and less energy and produce almost no waste. Taken to its logical conclusion, we expect advanced life-forms to be as small as the laws of physics allow.

Others might point to the warning that the most dangerous thing in science is the idea that arrives before its time.

Every day, no matter how you fight it, you learn a little more about yourself, and all most of it does is teach humility.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

The success of today may be the disaster of tomorrow and of other days to be. The failure of today may be an everlasting success.

The people who keep back change are often exasperating. But they have their work to perform, highly important work, too. Their very opposition, besides helping to weed out the weak ideas, gives the true ideas greater strength. For an idea is not worth much unless it can sturdily make its way through opposition and display toughness of fiber.

To get away from self is really the secret of all striving. And yet, most of us fail woefully. The more many of us try the more tightly we seem to be bound.

Those who object to what is new are controlled by the love of what is old.

I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things "like we've always done them."

A very civilized thing, glass—almost an index of civilization. When civilization retreats, it leaves behind broken glass.

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The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.