Quotes About Progress

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

Aumentar los impuestos antes de generar prosperidad es como poner la carreta delante de los bueyes.

Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line.

Like watermen, who look astern while they row the boat ahead.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

To find a fault is easy to do better may be difficult.

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.

Small, therefore, can we think the progress we have made, as long as our admiration for those who have done noble things is barren, and does not of itself incite us to imitate them.

When therefore we once begin so to love good men, as not only (according to Plato) to esteem the wise man himself happy, and him who hears his discourses sharer in his felicity, but also to admire and love his habit, gait, look, and very smile, so as to wish ourselves to be that very person, then we may be assured that we have made very good proficiency.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

At IndieBio, I quickly learned there was no such master plan— but more than that, it was wrong to think this period we face could be planned out at all. It was fast, blind, and dense. Nobody is an expert in the unknown. Planning wasn't the way to solve it. Experimenting was. There is no plan, just a way.

But replacing workers and making the remaining ones more productive are literally the same thing. If

The biggest lie of all is the notion that robots don't take jobs, they create jobs. The robots don't do that— the humans do.

The Protestant Reformation and the Scientific Revolution are intertwined much like all chicken-and-egg problems. One couldn't have happened without the other. Social change sometimes triggers technological change; sometimes it's the other way around. But they always go hand in hand. No technological revolution fails to be directly connected to a social revolution, either just before or just after.

Perdí años hasta llegar a entender que la vida no se vive en borrador y después se pasa, prolija y sin faltas de ortografía, al cuaderno de clase.

The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins learning. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.

Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

From this point onwards history becomes an organic whole: the affairs of Italy and of Africa are connected with those of Asia and of Greece, and all events bear a relationship and contribute to a single end.

If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.

The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.