Quotes About Progress

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

I also admit, that there are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits which are not good till they are rotten.

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.

Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

A feminist is a man or woman who already knows for a fact that men and women are qual and wants society to wake up to that fact, so the world can stop operating at half-strength.

I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.