Quotes About Progress

One can begin so many things with a new person!— even begin to be a better man.

The bias of human nature to be slow in correspondence triumphs even over the present quickening in the general pace of things:

But scepticism, as we know, can never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill:

In those days the world in general was more ignorant of good and evil by forty years than it is at present

I thought we should never part with that while we lived; everything is going away from us; the end of our lives will have nothing in it like the beginning!

Choice is the strongest principle of growth.

it is a curious fact that the more sophisticated we become the simpler grows our speech.

What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness.

Starting a long way off the true point by loops and zigags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.

When you're born, your life (past Karma) is like a piece of string with knots in it and you've got to try, before you die, to undo all the knots: but you tie another twenty trying to get one undone.

Our parents invested in the future, ours as well as theirs, through their taxes. They invested their tax money in the interstate highway system, the Internet, the scientific and medical establishments, our communications system, our airline system, the space program. They invested in the future, and we are reaping the tax benefits, the benefits from the taxes they paid. Today we have assets-highways, schools and colleges, the Internet, airlines-that come from the wise investments they made.

President Lyndon B. Johnson's 1965 speech at the Howard University commencement: It is not enough to open the gates of opportunity; all our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates … . We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result … . To this end equal opportunity is essential, but not enough, not enough.8 Because

In creating new paths, the "deviant" can make those paths appear safe to others and thus lead them to change their lives. Thus

up until 1913, most wealth was reinvestment wealth.

The entailments of this metaphorical mode of thought are quite considerable: Moral standards that change with time, or social situation, or ethnicity are a danger to the functioning of society. There is no such thing as progress in morality; what is and is not moral is fixed for all time, and any change of standards in the name of would-be moral progress is really an evil, a chipping away at our moral foundations, a tearing of our moral fabric, and so on.

Because of the runaway loss of satisfying work, education has radically changed.

New ideas are never entirely new. They must make use of ideas already present in the culture. No conspiracy of the ultrarich explains why conservative ideas make sense to people and what sense they make. Fourth

The meetings have gone on for two decades.

Women are both talented and innovative thinkers and tend to use computer science as a tool to solve larger problems.

Women are working for part or all of their adult lives now. The possibilities are limitless, but you need to prepare.

In an era when so many women are stepping up to lead, I'm hoping people will focus on our ideas and accomplishments instead of our appearance.

Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.

I think that American women are further along than any other women in the world. But you can't have peace in a world in which some women or some men or some nations are at different stages of development. There is so much work to be done.

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.