Quotes About Progress

In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of global trade generated expectations of progress.

The path of least resistance leads directly from inevitability to eternity. If you once believed that everything always turns out well in the end, you can be persuaded that nothing turns out well in the end. If you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.

history has seen three major democratic moments: after the First World War in 1918, after the Second World War in 1945, and after the end of communism in 1989.

the view of many reasonable people in 1933, just as it is the view of many reasonable people now.

If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And to make history, young Americans will have to know some. This is not the end, but a beginning.

to make history, young Americans will have to know some. This is not the end, but a beginning.

The nation faces forward. It is made and remade every day. If we believe that the nation resides in the orderly recitations of history given to us by our leaders, then our story is over

you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.

History does not repeat, but it does instruct. As

Insofar as climate denial hinders technical progress, it might hasten real disasters, which in their turn can make catastrophic thinking still more credible.

States should invest in science so that the future can be calmly contemplated.

the best path didn't have to be quick as long as it was correct.

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

Be realistic and demand the impossible

Habits form and habits grow, Then some time later, habits go.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Quando sei a un bivio e trovi una strada che va in su e una che va in giù, piglia quella che va in su. È più facile andare in discesa, ma alla fine ti trovi in un buco. A salire c'è speranza. È difficile, è un altro modo di vedere le cose, ti tiene all'erta.

Great material progress has not been matched by great spiritual progress. Quite the opposite. Indeed, from this point of view perhaps man has never been so poor as since he became so rich. Letters against the war: Letter from the Himalayas, 2008.

Il senso della ricerca sta nel cammino fatto e non nella meta; il fine del viaggiare è il viaggiare stesso e non l'arrivare.

En lugar de seguir avanzando por su propio camino y buscar soluciones asiáticas a sus problemas, Asia importa sin discriminación algunas fórmulas de éxito ajenas. Modernización significa occidentalización y, con ello, Asia pierde definitivamente la conciencia de si misma.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

This is all we are at our best, he thought, tiny instances accumulating up into a greater whole.