Quotes About Progress

It's only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

Change brings opportunity.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

If you won't improve yourself, who will?

You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday

A problem adequately stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.

You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

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

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.