Quotes About Progress

Lo que era no es lo que soy. Y lo que soy no es aún lo que puedo ser.

What I was, isn't what I am. And what I am, isn't yet what I can be.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

Histories themselves become history before they reach the shelves.

It is your duty and responsibility to become successful,

The outer garments of to-day will become the under-clothes of some destined to-morrow, and centuries hence a man found walking on the public highways dressed as you are will be arrested by the police for shocking the sense of propriety of the community, and so on. It will go on and on until you will find human beings everywhere decked out in layer after layer of clothes until he or she has lost all semblance to that beautiful thing that an all-wise Providence has designed us to be.

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

The leisure class has been replaced by another and much larger class to which work has none of the older connotation of pain, fatigue, or other mental or physical discomfort. We have failed to observe the emergence of this New Class, as it may be simply called.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

American can do better, and help is on the way.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race. And, if we're lucky, the final stage will be the human race.

all great achievements carry the seeds of their ossification.

Napredek in ?udovito obdobje besne?ega razvoja sta po njegovem ustvarila generacijo duševnih pohabljencev, ki bi bila potrebna nege v zdraviliš?ih. Prinesla sta s seboj množi?no živ?nost, množi?no histerijo, množi?ni dolg?as in množi?no smrt.

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

We take it for granted that life moves forward. But you move as a rower moves, facing backwards—you can see where you've been, but not where you're going. And your boat is steered by a younger version of you. It's hard not to wonder what life would be like facing the other way…

Fei Xiaoton, the University of Chicago - trained Chinese sociologist, once observed, this nation is "a land without ghosts," a place where people are so busy with promises of progress that they have forgotten where they come from and who their ancestors were...

The superstitions of today are the scientific facts of tomorrow.

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.