Quotes About Progress

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

I can tell you, without diversity, creativity remains stagnant.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

We cannot, as a country, improve economically, socially, and culturally without quality education.

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

We should be in constant evolution and adapt to the new without ever losing our essence or our integrity.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

Nothing is possible without men, but nothing lasts without institutions.

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

It's widely recognized that there is no peace without development and no development without peace; it is also true that there is no peace and sustainable development without respect for human rights.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.

If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.

It is not, of course, complete yet - but some sentences were understood this afternoon... I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem - and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas - and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.