Quotes About Progress

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

I never thought my cotton gin would change history.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

History is not going to look kindly on us if we just keep our head in the sand on armed autonomous robotics issue because it sounds too science fiction.

When women's true history shall have been written, her part in the upbuilding of this nation will astound the world.

Each day is a little bit of history

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

History shows that anything conducive to our national stability is good.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to all of us on a daily basis.

Stand up and walk out of your history