Quotes About Progress

the primary purpose of college is to become a learner.

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

Tradition with all its happy assumptions and necessary evils, all of its content majorities and stout killers, is not always a reliable guide.

Reforms will come as all great reforms have always come in ridding us of evils against both man and animal--not as we change our moral principles but as we discern and accept the implications of principles already held.

at what point does our reach exceed our grasp? And if we find that answer it may be worth thinking about the consequences of reaching that point.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was and never will be," he explained.86

Werewolf Root is for changes that are complete, so that one cannot go back to the old life one was living.

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves," Lord Chesterfield once told his son. This is the best path to gradual change.

Others, however, point out that science is incapable of revealing all truths, and that while technology has produced huge benefits, the ravages it has caused are at least as great. What is more, science is silent when it comes to providing wisdom about how we should live.

L'utopie ne signifie pas l'irréalisable, mais l'irréalisé. L'utopie d'hier peut devenir la réalité d'aujourd'hui.

la suffisance est l'apanage du sot, l'humilité est la vertu de celui qui mesure tout ce qui lui reste à apprendre et le chemin qu'il doit encore parcourir.

Martin Seligman once told me, "The best it [psychoanalysis] can do is to bring us from minus ten to zero.

Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.

History is a more or less bunk, the only history that is worth a damn is what we make today.

I believe sex is a life force and I try to write about it as straightforwardly as I can. I try to let characters live within their desires and addictions, because most people are works in progress.

it is no great task to remember people--the challenge is in forgetting them and allowing one's self to -go on-. [Édouard Manet]

Technology-based innovation is imperative for success in a competitive business environment.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

In every period, and in every country, there have always been two parties: the reactionary and the progressive.

But that is exploration: a great deal of hesitation, doubt, error, and then, quite suddenly, a discovery.

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future tradition has placed 10 000 men to guard the past

We can be born thus more than once; and each birth brings us a little nearer to our God.

At every crossway on the road that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.