Quotes About Progress

If Jesus says you can go forward, you can go forward.

Zeitgeist is a German word that means "spirit of the age."  The zeitgeist of Periclean Athens was self-knowledge (supremely embodied in the thought of Socrates), while that of the Middle Ages and Victorianism was hierarchy (Dante) and progress (Tennyson), respectively.  As for the darker zeitgeist of modernism, marked by relativism and subjectivism, though Lewis did not embody it, he understood it better than many of its most ardent supporters.

Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it has been discovered before. Lastly they say they always believed it.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

At first it was just a misdemeanor, but then you lost the "mis-de" and you just got meaner and meaner..

Today is not forever.

All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in the Tudor and Stuart periods. For us, that's the milk in the coconut.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Jak mawia? Swami Bodhidharma: "nie mo?esz mie? ?adnej nowej rzeczy, dopóki nie pozb?dziesz si? starych rzeczy". Innymi s?owy, kiedy nic ci nie idzie, mo?e nale?y spojrze? na dany problem z innej strony.

Education is cumulative, and it affects the breed. —Plato

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

No people ever did or ever can attain a worthy civilization by the satisfaction merely of material needs . . .

I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

The next thing is: we can make IBM even better. We brought IBM back but we're gunning for leadership.

I think that my leadership style is to get people to fear staying in place, to fear not changing.

Isn't it too bad Walt Disney didn't live to see this?" "He did see it," Vance replied simply. "That's why it's here.

There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward–opening new doors and doing new things—because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting…we call it "Imagineering"—the blending of creative imagination and technical know-how.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

No one can "get" an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.