Quotes About Progress

He gave the human mind a great impetus; he prepared us for freedom.

Generaciones de hombres establecen un dominio creciente sobre la tierra, pero están destinados a convertirse en fósiles en su suelo.

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

La educacion es el progresivo descubrimiento de nuestra propia ignorancia.

Every topic begins as philosophy, turns to science and ends as art.

Before Aristotle, science was in embryo; with him it was born.

Government and History

Knowledge grows, but wisdom, though it can improve with years, does not progress with centuries. I cannot instruct Solomon. So, brave reader, you have fair warning: proceed at your own risk. But I shall be warmed by your company. Will Durant

But how far has human nature changed in the course of history? Theoretically there must have been some change; natural selection has presumably operated upon psychological as well as upon physiological variations. Nevertheless, known history shows little alteration in the conduct of mankind.

we must not expect the world to improve much faster than ourselves

Oh, the future--it's always so fucking dated. For you, for me, for all of us. If only there were some way out of it.

our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

When nations grow old the Arts grow cold And commerce settles on every tree

Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.

Nothing stands still. Things are either...

If there is progress then there is a novel.

Clean is he alone after whom stream the broken pieces of the city— flying apart at his approaches

One minute gives invention to destroy, What, to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.

It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One brother will be civilized and the other a barbarian...All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.