Quotes About Progress

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

Within the Gospel of Jesus Christ there is room and place for every truth thus far learned by man or yet to be made known.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today

Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

Every man at three years old is half his height

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

The purpose of the church is to make bad men good and good men better.

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life.

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest of mankind follows them little by little.

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart.