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Quotes About Progress

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Some day, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of the world, we will have discovered fire.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.
~ Pierre Trudeau
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
~ Pierre Trudeau
It is better to enlighten men's minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
When our ideas on any subject, material, intellectual, or social, undergo a thorough change in consequence of new observations, I call that movement of the mind revolution. If the ideas are simply extended or modified, there is only progress. Thus the system of Ptolemy was a step in astronomical progress, that of Copernicus was a revolution.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Humanity makes continual progress toward truth, and light ever triumphs over darkness.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
La démagogie est l'hypocrisie du progrès.
~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
by shortening the labours doubled the life of the astronomer. { On the benefit of John Napier 's logarithms .}
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.
~ Piers Anthony
You don't have to settle for what you are at this moment. You can work to make a difference. --Chex
~ Piers Anthony
The road to wisdom?—Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.
~ Piet Hein
Put up in a place where it is easy to see the cryptic admonishment T.T.T When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb it's well to remember that Things Take Time.
~ Piet Hein
THE ROAD TO WISDOM The road to wisdom? -- Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.
~ Piet Hein
ABREAST He who aims to keep abreast is for ever second best.
~ Piet Hein
Remember, things take time.
~ Piet Hein
A via da sabedoria é fácil de indicar: - errar, errar, errar! Fazer erros grandes e pequenos, mas sempre menos, sempre menos.
~ Piet Hein
Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.
~ Pieter Geyl
The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
~ Pinero Arthur Wing
Socjalizm by? pi?kny, ale niestety nie odpowiada? psychice ludzkiej i post?powaniu normalnego cz?owieka.
~ Piotr Lipi?ski
I've come to see that competitors are necessary to those who want to get on in the world. Opposition is indispensable to success.
~ Pitigrilli
You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.
~ Pittacus
Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.
~ Plato