Quotes About Progress

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on.

Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products

I am the son of the first fish who climbed ashore but the news has not yet reached my bowels.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

Fear, which is probably the biggest obstacle to any learning process, is a repressive force. It exists in the mind, and almost always it is based on something that might happen in the future, rather than what is happening now. As

When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice that it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed.

So let us do as we always have, and always continue to change the way we think, but let us not change that we do think.

For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.

Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.

The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent. Nevertheless, men strive to know.

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot celebrate them because their deeds are concerned with things, not persons, and are therefore speechless. When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before.

Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.

Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full strength of Collective Man.

It is time for the destruction of error.

Education, all smoothly say, is the production of useful citizens. But, good God, what on earth is a useful citizen just now?

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

I don't have to tell you that the one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.

In these days when anything goes in literature, movies, and even TV, to think there are some places so isolated, so backward, so ill-informed as to what's going on in the world