Quotes About Progress

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

All Disruption starts with introspection.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.

We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

No matter how efficient school training may be, it would only produce stagnation, orthodoxy, and rigid pedantry if there were no uncommon men pushing forward beyond the wisdom of their tutors.

You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.

Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

The further in you go, the bigger it gets.

The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.

The ascent is the aim of your life and to perfect it is your job.

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.

They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?

When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

On the other side of resistance is the flow of real life.

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.

We can and do control the direction of our own evolution.

Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.