Quotes About Progress

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind.

We are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted fagots to burn men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind.

The purpose of man is like the purpose of a pollywog - to wiggle along as far as he can without dying; or, to hang to life until death takes him.

Queria saber: Depois que se é feliz, o que acontece? O que vem depois?

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.

The future, at least, had the advantage of not being the present, and the worse can always take a turn for the better... For, strange though it may seem, she had faith. Composed of fine organic matter, she existed. Pure and simple.

the greatest obstacle to my progress is me. I myself have been the biggest difficulty in my path. It's with enormous effort that I'm able to overcome myself.

Ik zekere zin gingen de zaken zo goed dat ze alleen maar erg slecht zouden kunnen gaan want wat helemaal rijp is kan gaan rotten.

De toekomst had tenminste het voordeel niet het heden te zijn, wat slecht is kan altijd beter worden.

As coisas estavam de algum modo tão boas que podiam se tornar muito ruins porque o que amadurece plenamente pode apodrecer.

From my own flaw I had created a future good.

Mas talvez seja assim mesmo: todo homem tem que um dia descobrir a pólvora. Ou então não houve experiência. E seu fracasso? como se conciliar com o próprio fracasso? Bem, toda história de uma pessoa é a história de seu fracasso. Através do qual... Ele, aliás, não falhara totalmente.

O tempo não existe. O que chamamos de tempo é o movimento de evolução das coisas, mas o tempo em si não existe.

Quanto a mim, estou +- O.K. Não consegui no entanto soltar minhas rédeas. Planos, programas, consciência, vigilância. O que vale é que misturada a tudo isso, está a vida que não pára.

só me comprometo com vida que nasça com o tempo e com ele cresça: só no tempo há espaço para mim.

Rather than viewing and treating students who want to do something new as troublemakers who need to be fixed, we should recognize that they will be the engines of improvements in our standard of living. Point of fact, they always have been. To

the religious models that had existed up until then did not adequately prepare us. Only through a process of radical self-empowerment—which Ikeda, expanding upon a term used by Toda, called Human Revolution—could human beings address issues that big. They couldn't be dealt with effectively by any one people, nation, or religion, but only by humanity as a whole.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.

When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted.