Quotes About Progress

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list.

For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.

Do you know anybody under 25 that gives a damn whether you marry a man if you're a man or if you marry a woman if you're a woman? No.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect.

It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working.

It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

All men start life as a road-user and only few continue it as a road-creator!