Quotes About Progress

When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be.

Science fiction is not about the future. Like all other fiction, it is about the present. It simply uses different techniques to show us who we are, who we might be, and whom we ought to become.

In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain.

And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

All great ideas are dangerous.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

all walls were destined to fall, no matter what.

roads were made for journeys not destinations

If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it