Quotes About Progress

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

Aujourd'hui, on cherche partout à répandre le savoir; qui sait si, dans quelques siècles, il n'y aura pas des universités pour rétablir l'ancienne ignorance?

Nothing is more inimical to the progress of science than the belief that we know what we do not yet know.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Wouldn't things look much better for the human race if we no longer had history, at least no political history? The human being then would act more in accordance with the energies he possesses at any given time; for as things stand today, the example that now and then makes one person better makes a thousand others worse.

Când ai de facut o lucrare, nu te gândi mereu la întregimea ei; executa fragmentul pe care-l ai în fata, si când ai terminat cu el, mergi mai departe

Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.

Darüber, daß sie nichts zum zweitenmal erfinden wollen, lernen sie alles so ansehen, wie es ihre Vorfahren angesehen haben. Der zweite Fehler ist aber gewiß schlimmer, als der erste.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.

World history is a court of judgment

History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.

History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.

Every man is the architect of his own fortunes, but the neighbors superintend the construction.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.

Stay with the procession or you will never catch up.

This life is not given to us as a pastime. There was a solemn purpose in our creation, in the life that God has given to us. Let us study what that purpose is, that we may progress and obtain eternal life.