Quotes About Progress

One has to look out for engineers—they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Ils marchèrent toute la journée sur leurs ombres grandissantes.

One also found there, in those days, a certain number of people learning to master bicycles. With fixed gaze and clenched jaws, they would suddenly bolt away from their teacher, shoot across the avenue, vanish into a thicket, and reappear with their machines round their necks.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be.

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.

Sunrise is a necessary concomitant of long railway journeys, like hard-boiled eggs, illustrated papers, packs of cards, rivers upon which boats strain but make no progress.

It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12,13,14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expanded the the audience of listeners to the quartets of Beethoven, thus achieving, as all masterpieces do, progress if not in the quality of artists, at least in the company of minds, which is largely composed these days of what was missing when the work appeared: people capable of liking it.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

première et légère esquisse du chagrin que cause une séparation et des progrès irréguliers de l'oubli

For a man cannot change, that is to say become another person, while he continues to obey the dictates of the self which he has ceased to be.

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow.

There is reason for optimism when one moves from ignorance to understanding but no guarantees.

Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress...

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long conceived are now being born, channels traced for coming rivers, basins hollowed for lakes...

Fortunately wrong cannot last. Soon or late it must fall back home to Hades, while some compensating good must surely follow.

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am

Really good anything takes timing.

It was Kierkegaard who said that life must be lived forward, but it can only be understood backward.

A horizon is something towards which we move, but it's also something that moves along with us - Hans Georg Gadamer (Truth and Method)

To live like this is to experience time as a constant invitation to growth

A good beginning is half the work.