Quotes About Progress

The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development.

All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths

Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

When you can look forward, and the road is clear ahead, and now you are going to create something - that's as happy as I'd want to be.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Everything begins with the resolve to take the first step. From that action, wisdom arises and change begins. Without action, nothing changes.

The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day.

A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.