Quotes About Progress

Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.

Christianity alone inspires and guides progress; for the progress of man is movement toward God. and movement toward God wili ensure a gradual unfolding of all that exalts and adorns man.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible.

I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.

For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others.

Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.

I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.

If a man begins to read in the middle of a book, and feels an inclination to go on, let him not quit it to go to the beginning. He may perhaps not feel again the inclination.