Quotes About Progress

How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.

The problem of the modern economy is not a failure of a knowledge of economics; it's a failure of a knowledge of history.

Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.

You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.

One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

A scientist is happy, not in resting on his attainments but in the steady acquisition of fresh knowledge.

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership

Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.

The stages of human development are to strive for: (1) Besitz [Possession] (2) Wissen [Knowledge] (3) Können [Ability] (4) Sein [Being].

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.