Quotes About Progress

Come, clear the way, then, clear the way: Blind creeds and kings have had their day. Break the dead branches from the path: Our hope is in the aftermath... Make way for Brotherhood—make way for Man.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burnt me; nowadays they are content with burning my books.

Change there will be, as there has been throughout these... years. For he who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.

Children are one third of our population and all of our future.

Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.

CIVILIZATION. A concerted effort to remedy the blunders and check the practical joking of God.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. As usual, what we call "Progress" is the exchange of one Nuisance for another Nuisance.

There was no such thing as civilization until individuals ceased carrying arms, and agreed to refer their differences to the courts.

The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism.

The convention of one age is the laughing-stock of the next.

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.

If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world—and never will.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

The day is past when women want to spend hours and hours in the kitchen. They like to get out and do things.

Rice is born in water and must die in wine.

Even if you make a mistake, make it part of the dance and move on.

We take a step, then we stumble. The joy in life comes when we make a dance out of both.

Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions.

Indecision becomes decision with time.

I'm on a 90-day wonder diet. Thus far, I've lost 45 days.

There is no such thing as complete education, and I hope we have heard the last of the girl who is going to Boston to complete her education.

He is an educated man in the best sense of the word — mindful always that there is no such thing as complete education. We are always going to school, and success consists in striving eternally, but never arriving.