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Quotes About Progress

We are less than a decade away from the medical lab the size of a sugar cube.
~ Philippe Kahn
Education and Training For Life
~ David Dweck
Wise men change, fools stay the same.
~ Kevin Gates
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
~ Jean Piaget
Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.
~ Ibn Khaldun
I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.
~ Robert E. Lee
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
~ Alexander Graham Bell
The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. But man does not create... he discovers.
~ Antonio Gaudi
Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.
~ Sarojini Naidu
Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.
~ Marcus Garvey
A man learns all his life, and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.
~ Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.
~ Socrates
Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!
~ Archimedes
THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.
~ Dambudzo Marechera
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
~ Aldous Huxley
A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.
~ Ernest Shackleton
The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.
~ Milton H. Erickson
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
~ Alan Turing
He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.
~ Benjamin E. Mays
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.
~ Charles Dickens
The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all-doing nothing.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
~ Tommy Douglas
I am a 21st century man. I don't believe in magic. I believe in sweat, tears, life and death.
~ Kamal Haasan