Quotes About Progress

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

Every once in a while someone along the road lets us know how far behind we are. A man shouts: 'Faster!' He probably thinks bicycle racing is about going fast.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

I was once ask if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.

We cannot go after thousands of men until we learn how to win one.

Newt Gingrich wants to repeal child labor laws. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the man that we need to lead us into the 18th century.

I do believe in the value of ideas—and that eventually they get a man somewhere.

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

Every monster was a man first.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

I think were struggling with trying to redefine various positions at this point in history. To allow freedom for women, freedom for men, freedom from those sharply defined gender roles.

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.