Quotes About Progress

when we women get our rights, you men will have to look alive in order to keep yours.

That is—you are not to thank him for the money; he doesn't care to have that mentioned, but you are to write a letter telling of the progress in your studies and the details of your daily life.

I am learning so many new things every day that when each Saturday night comes I look back on the Sallie of last Saturday night, amazed at her ignorance.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

Viteza cu care se înnoieÈ™te tehnologia ne oblig? s? ne reorganiz?m continuu È™i într-un ritm imposibil deprinderilor mentale.

Fiecare nou? tehnologie impune dobândirea unui nou sistem de reflexe, care ne cere noi eforturi, È™i asta la r?stimpuri din ce în ce mai scurte.

Nu mai tr?im un prezent placid, ci suntem prinÈ™i cu toÈ›ii în efortul de a ne preg?ti permanent pentru viitor.

Ceea ce numim cultur? e în realitate un lung proces de selecÈ›ie È™i de cernere.

We are in a system that doesn't give a rap about sacredness.

Science too proceeds by lantern-flashes; it explores nature's inexhaustible mosiac piece by piece. Too often the wick lacks oil; the glass panes of the lantern may not be clean. No matter : his work is not in vain who first recognizes and shows to others one speck of the vast unknown.

so slow is moral progress. True, we have the bicycle, the motor-car, the dirigible airship and other marvellous means of breaking our bones; but our morality is not one rung the higher for it all. One would even say that, the farther we proceed in our conquest of matter, the more our morality recedes. The most advanced of our inventions consists in bringing men down with grapeshot and explosives with the swiftness of the reaper mowing the corn.

Let us see but a little at a time and see that little plainly; that is the way to acquire substantial and lasting knowledge.

Le déplacement debout semble avoir, sinon entraîné, du moins permis d'autres aspects importants de l'évolution humaine : la réorganisation du crâne avec une augmentation du volume du cerveau, la libération de la main débarrassée de la locomotion et peut-être même l'apparition de la parole.

Le développement de l'agriculture est très récent à l'échelle de l'évolution humaine : moins de 10 000 ans, et souvent seulement 5 000 ou 6 000 ans, sont loin d'être suffisants pour une évolution biologique significative.

We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.

we now live in a society

Humane people don't start revolutions, they start libraries. And cemeteries.

Change nothing so that everything will be different

Things are only impossible until they are not.

L'ultime réponse à la violence et à l'agressivité serait donc un vrai projet de civilisation, lequel n'en est encore qu'à ses débuts mais qui devrait – qui devra ! – devenir, à travers l'éducation et la télévision, la priorité des priorités ! Un processus

Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.