Quotes About Progress

But, if we regard knowledge as an antique, as "ancient wisdom" to be collected, then we are on the wrong path.

The situations of fear that exist in our lives provide us with stepping stones to step over our fear. On the other side of cowardice is bravery. If we step over properly, we can cross the boundary from being cowardly to being brave.

Self-deception is a constant problem as we progress along a spiritual path. Ego is always trying to achieve spirituality. It is rather like wanting to witness your own funeral.

first, recognize them; second, try to overcome them; third, take a vow never to re-create such things again.

Chad Davidson

Dating is the gym class of life, not the advanced calculus class.

It seems backward, but keeping your mind focused on the present will get you further toward your goals than keeping your mind focused on the goal itself.

Sir Isaac Newton said, "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Smart guys like Isaac know that there is much to be learned from those who came before us. Be like Isaac.

la naissance ne suffit pas, il faut se créer.

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.

Time perfects men as well as destroys them.

historians have long debated which people, decisions, and actions really destroyed slavery.

What did former slaves become once emancipated?12 That second question is easy to miss if we assume that the only two conditions a person could occupy were either enslavement or full inclusion within the American polity complete with enjoyment of equal rights, or, in other words, citizenship as we currently conceptualize it.

whether the people are happy or not in their lives, they have learned to keep steadily moving, moving all the time.

I'm a B+ student of life.

Civilised man does not discover gods, he discards them.

One cannot conceive man actually ascribing ethical qualities to his gods before he becomes sufficiently developed to formulate moral rules for his own guidance, and to create moral laws for his fellow man.

The whole of the argument of the advocate of the wider teleology is that God wanted the higher type. But if that is so why did he not produce it at once? What useful purpose could be served by producing at the end of a lengthy and murderous process what might just as well have been secured at the beginning?

I have fallen behind time, and am too old to catch it again. Even the noise it makes a long way ahead confuses me.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

You have built here what you, or anyone else, might have built anywhere; to do so you have destroyed what was unique in the world.

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.