Quotes About Progress

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

Our history is not our destiny.

[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.

A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

Only 3 to 5 percent of people are aware of being a part of history; the overwhelming majority think things will always be the way they are.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting in the Renaissance, but multiplied a thousand-fold.

The use of thermodynamics in biology has a long history rich in confusion.

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end

It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat

In fact, there are more homeowners today than ever before in the history of our Nation and more minority homeowners than ever before in the history of our Nation.