Quotes About Progress

The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.

Your surfing can get better on every turn, on every wave you catch. Learn to read the ocean better. A big part of my success has been wave knowledge.

These things shall be! A loftier race Than e'er the world hath known shall rise, With flame of freedom in their souls, And light of knowledge in their eyes.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge.

If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production

The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge.

Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

I am only here to share my knowledge with others and to help them make rapid progress on the path of yoga.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.

As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

Wealth is knowledge and its origin is evolution

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.