Quotes About Progress

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

Feminism now seems to be defined as success is defined: as being as good at capitalism as men are. I feel very estranged from it.

Man's most intelligent age may have gotten lost in history.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.

Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.

A foolish man is always doing, Yet much remains to be done.

You know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63 cents. Now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. So, with that kind of luck, it'll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.