Quotes About Progress

There's nothing that says you can't change." "Not even if it changes everything else?" I shook my head. "Not even then.

Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end.

You learn more from the things that end.

Everything changes," I told him. "Eventually.

That was the thing about water under a bridge. It could get caught up in a bunch of debris, or it could sweep everything away, leaving nothing behind; it all depended on the ferocity of the storm.

mind has no sex": there was no limit to what Sophia or any girl might learn. Yet gender did affect the uses of knowledge.

Margaret expected her friends to "be capable of seeking something." She cared little what that something was, only that her friends "should not be satisfied with the common routine of life,—that they should aspire to something higher, better, holier, than they had now attained.

Although he had no dramatic successes to report as yet, Howe knew that he could win supporters by showing them a few blind children working together in a schoolroom to master the rudiments of spelling, mathematics, and even geography from specially crafted globes—unthinkable anywhere in the United States until now.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow

Even with the best intentions, growing apart might just be an inevitable part of growing up.

I didn't know anything about anything. And the only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to, but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I've yet to learn.

And here's the thing: I like who I am. I like the person I've turned out to be, and I know I'm not done evolving yet.

I pray that it will be different when they're our age. I pray for a cure to the Virus so they can choose not to share their bodies before they're ready. I pray that they will have the power to choose when and how they will marry, make love, make babies. And I pray that they will not be judged if they choose not to do those things in the "right" order.... My sister and I close our eyes. We dream of a better world. We imagine what we can - and will - do to make it possible.

Since our school went MiNet blind, it's for seriously more like 1836 than 2036.

By going through what we have, we helped each other be the people we're supposed to be.

The Toad Pee Club had taken one small step for toadkind and one giant leapfrog for humankind.

In a period of less than 150 years, to progress from slavery to Pennsylvania Avenue speaks volumes about this family and our nation. Distracted by the rush of our everyday life, we might shrug it off today, but 100 years from now, historians will be discussing this precedent.

Nothing ever begins when you think it does. You think you can trace something back to its roots but roots by definition never end. There's always something that came before: soil and water and seeds that were born of trees that were born of yet more seeds.

Their fierce response was a classic example of what is known as the "Semmelweis reflex"—the reflexive rejection of new paradigms in medicine

When the cathedrals fall, my work is done!

For a flexible person, it is impossible not to reach his destination, because by using his ability to be flexible he can easily define a nearer new destination.

A country is not developed by constructing bridges, houses or roads but it is developed only if the brains of the people living in that country are developed, only if their level of culture is raised and only if an infinite importance is given to the science and to the knowledge!

A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!