Quotes About Progress

Jean-Jacques Rousseau doubted it, complaining that the rise of commerce expanded hierarchies of wealth that both morally enervated the rich and fed disorder, even if they left the poor better off.

We will do much more for the happiness of the lower classes," utopian socialist Victor Considerant wrote, "for their real emancipation and true progress, in guaranteeing these classes well-remunerated work, than in winning political rights and a meaningless sovereignty for them. The most important of the people's rights is the right to work.

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else I am grown worse to please than heretofore.

Things have made you what you are," she recited "What you are will make you what you will become.

If the situation of a technological society was such that there could be no direct relation between a man's work and his modus vivendi, other than money, at least he must feel that he is directly changing things by his work, shaping things, making things that weren't there before, moving things from one place to another. He must exert energy in his work and see these changes occur with his own eyes. Otherwise he would feel his life was futile.

Things have made you what you are. What you are will make you what you will become.

You have to grow all the time," I said. "Not necessarily get bigger. But inside your head you have to grow, kid-boy. For us human-type people that's what's important. And that kind of growing never stops. At least it shouldn't. You can grow, kid-boy; or you can die. That's the choice you've got, and it goes on all of your life.

History is cyclic, not repetitive.

I'd managed to type more than two hundred consecutive pages about more or less the same characters who stayed more or less in the same place and more or less took part in the same story.

Things have made you what you are," she recited. "What you are will make you what you will become.

There is so much knowledge available today that there can be no such thing anymore as a classical education that we can expect more than a relatively few people to share.

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There are certain directions in which you cannot go. Choose one in which you can move as far as you want.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.

I never thought there had been need of so much wrestling to win to the top of that steep mountain as now I find.

God knoweth that ye are His own. Wrestle, fight, go forward, watch, fear, believe, pray; and then ye have all the infallible symptoms of one of the elect of Christ within you.

He who does not look forward remains behind.

Every intern makes mistakes. The important thing is neither to make the same mistakes twice nor to make a whole bunch of mistakes all at once.

He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.