Quotes About Progress

The extent of the market, therefore, must for a long time be in proportion to the riches and populousness of that country, and consequently their improvement must always be posterior to the improvement of that country.

En toda sociedad avanzada el agricultor es sólo agricultor y el industrial sólo industrial.

gran multiplicación de la producción de todos los diversos oficios, derivada de la división del trabajo, da lugar, en una sociedad bien gobernada, a esa riqueza universal que se extiende hasta las clases más bajas del pueblo.

what is the work of one man, in a rude state of society, being generally that of several in an improved one.

The common complaint, that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people, and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food, clothing, and lodging, which satisfied them in former times, may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only, but its real recompense, which has augmented. Is this improvement in the circumstances of the lower ranks of the people to be regarded as an advantage, or as an inconveniency, to the society?

It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest.

The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the necessary effect, so it is the natural symptom of increasing national wealth. The scanty maintenance of the labouring poor, on the other hand, is the natural symptom that things are at a stand, and their starving condition, that they are going fast backwards.

and a workman, even of the lowest and poorest order, if he is frugal and industrious, may enjoy a greater share of the necessaries and conveniences of life than it is possible for any savage to acquire.

Each individual becomes more expert in his own peculiar branch, more work is done upon the whole, and the quantity of science is considerably increased by it.

Come la vita, la letteratura è vissuta in avanti e compresa a ritroso.

Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backward.

Four days before the declaration of World War II, on August 27, 1939, the test pilot van Chaim flew the first jet aircraft in the world, the Heinkel 178. Only a small circle of people directly concerned knew of this event, which for that time was of great importance. Exactly a year later, on August 27, 1940, the first Italian jet plane, the Caproni-Campini made its first flight. It reached 300 mph, and the event received great propaganda.

As the Russians say, getting what you want sometimes requires moving like the knight in chess: forward and to the left.

Geistesgeschichte

It's the feeling of being an eternal student that keeps this profession interesting.

All your life you was one thing. And now you can be something else if you want! Somebody completely different. You can actually start yourself over from scratch. Turn yourself into what you have always wanted to be!

A long time ago I went to a fortuneteller, and she told me that when you have a dream come true, you must then re-dream. You must not stay in the past, because all of life changes anyway, and if you try to hang on to happiness, or success, or even the people in your life, you will be unhappy. You have to set new goals.

The wise man leaves the past behind like a pair of boots he has outgrown.

The wise man leaves the past behind like a pair of boots he has outgrown. Ciro

Folks lighten up their lives when they're about to make a move.

Learning comes through pain.

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

Time brings all things to pass.

Time refines all things that age with time.