Quotes About Progress

and they would be dragging two of their three boats with them

Our distance from Paulet I. is now 94 miles

By 5 P.M., after three hours on the trail, they were 1 mile from the ship

Land in sight! Land in sight!

Till the war drum throbbed no longer and the battle flags were furledIn the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.

So many worlds, so much to do,So little done, such things to be.

And slowly answer'd Arthur from the barge:The old order changeth, yielding place to new;And God fulfills himself in many ways,Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs,And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease,Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;Ring out the thousand wars of old,Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Our little systems have their day.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnished, not to shine in use,As though to breathe were life!

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

I know that age to age succeeds,Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds,A dust of systems and of creeds.

For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

My factories may make an end of war sooner than your congresses. The day when two army corps can annihilate each other in one second, all civilized nations, it is to be hoped, will recoil from war and discharge their troops.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.