Quotes About Progress

No one has a monopoly on truth, and science continues to advance. Yesterday's heresies may be tomorrow's conventional wisdom.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.

When women and girls rise, their communities and their countries rise with them

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than it has now.

Empowering women is key to building a future we want

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.

We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons.

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.

...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.

I do not wish to give (women) a first place, still less a second one- but the complete freedom to take their true place, whatever it may be.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!

WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence

The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women

I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.