Quotes About Progress

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.

If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable.

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

As knowledge grew, fear decreased; men thought less of worshiping the unknown, and more of overcoming it.

Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy

As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.

If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

When I watch Mad Men and I see the patronising attitudes to women that are so shocking for all of us to watch now, I feel that I've lived and see the same evolution in this regard around disability.

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate.

Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.