Quotes About Progress

Very few worthwhile things are not difficult, in some fashion

I wished that adults were as capable as children of moving beyond some impasse, letting go of whatever had been intractable only hours or days ago. I envied them that ability to discard their past selves as if they were old, tattered, useless skins.

She wanted him to become cleverer, so that she could become cleverer still.

observing the way the rig needed only occasional human intervention to stay locked on the road. Doubtless it could have managed with none at all, were it not for local union laws. Very

Never put off until the next million years what you can do during this million.

As the great work of the sanctification of our souls is to be begun by humility, so must it be completed by the same

Every year ought to find us more fervent in charity; every day ought our soul to augment in strength, and be decked with new flowers of virtue and good works.

In Hom. 12, we have an excellent instruction on that important maxim in a spiritual life, That we must never think how far we have run, but what remains of our course, as in a race a man thinks only on what is before him. It will avail nothing to have begun, unless we finish well our course

It is, in a great measure, by raising up and endowing great minds that God secures the advance of human affairs, and the accomplishment of His own plans on earth.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

An achievement is bondage.It obliges one to a higher achievement.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better....

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

Innovation is not the product of logical thought, although the result is tied to logical structure.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I don't know the weapons that will be used in the Third World War, but in the Forth men will use wood and stones

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

"There is not the slightest indication that energy will ever be obtainable from the atom"

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.