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Quotes About Progress

Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Like anything else, knowledge must evolve.
~ Deepak Chopra
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
~ Warren G. Bennis
There are things that have excited me to no end, and it's the sharing of knowledge that has come about on the network, and I see at an increasing pace this ability to share what we know.
~ Vinton Cerf
Uncertainty is inevitable at the frontiers of knowledge.
~ Joel Achenbach
The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
~ Michael Gove
Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation's level of knowledge and sense of values.
~ Leon Botstein
Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.
~ Howard Rheingold
Chiefly the sea-shore has been the point of departure to knowledge, as to commerce. The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it.
~ Arthur Koestler
Education has a larger function than the mere communication of knowledge.
~ George Russell
Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
...I felt it would push me out of my comfort zone and develop my skills. And that's what it's all about - do something new and learn something from it.
~ Marlene Mienie
Saying "yes" to yourself means acknowledging what you have that's good and working on the things that aren't.
~ Patricia Fripp
Until we see what we are we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
~ Charlotte P. Gilman
Sometimes a person has to go back really back-to have a sense an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.
~ Paule Marshall
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
~ Enrico Fermi
From the first I made my learning what little it was useful every way I could.
~ Mary McLeod Bethune
Pain is knowledge, knowledge is to heal the future.
~ Sixeye
A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence.
~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Now here is the good news: while it's true that none of us can know everything, we can all know more tomorrow than we do today
~ Pat Williams
Out of Africa, there is always something new.
~ Pliny the Elder
If you can't Change yourself, Don't Hope that other Will.
~ Fahad Rashiq