Quotes About Progress

But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.

The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.

More than ever before in history, individuals can now band together to solve grand challenges. We face enormous problems, but we 'as individuals' have enormous power to solve them.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

Each day is a drive through history.

History is more or less bunk.

We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.

Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.

History's just one darn thing after another.

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.

The laws of history tell us that only when the old is gone can the new take its place.

History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.

To picture world history as advancing smoothly and steadily without sometimes taking gigantic strides backward is undialectical, unscientific and theoretically wrong.

Harlem is filled with moments of history.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.