Quotes About Progress

Our consiousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us anymore than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

Our guides, we pretend, must be sinless: as if those were not often the best teachers who only yesterday got corrected for their mistakes.

They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience.

Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future

A woman may get to love by degrees—the best fire does not flare up the soonest.

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends in this way to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

I should be glad to see a good change in anybody, Mr. Godfrey.' she answered, with the slightest discernible difference of tone, 'but it 'ud be better if no change was wanted.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight—that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

The young ones have always a claim on the old to help them forward.

And there's such a thing as being oversperitial; we must have something beside Gospel i' this world. Look at the canals, an' th' aqueduc's, an' th' coal-pit engines, and Arkwright's mills there at Cromford; a man must learn summat beside Gospel to make them things, I reckon. But t' hear some o' them preachers, you'd think as a man must be doing nothing all's life but shutting's eyes and looking what's agoing on inside him.

A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and haven't so much as dug the foundation.

I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone.

Development and catastrophe can often be measured by nothing clumsier than the moment-hand.

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight - that, in fact, you are exploring a closed basin.

A thorn in her spirit, a pink-and-white nullifidian, worse than any discouraging presence in the 'Pilgrim's Progress'.

For power finds its place in lack of power;               Advance

the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

He leaped over the years in this way, and, in the haste of strong purpose and strong desire, did not see how they would be made up of slow days, hours, and minutes.

Proceeding by loops and zig-zags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.