Quotes About Progress

One's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its orginal dimensions.

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but sail we must and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it ? but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and somtimes agaisnt it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

People can be divided into two classes those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way'

That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before they come to a standstill... The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be while you still live.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.