Quotes About Progress

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

Wir setzen an dieser Stelle über den Fluss—

Look not at the days gone by with a forlorn heart. They were simply the dots we can now connect with our present, to help us draw the outline of a beautiful tomorrow.

Sometimes you must cross a bridge and other times you need to burn it. But, always keep building one and never lose your faith in life.

Do not let your shadow walk you. You are not a slave of the past.

Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.

It would be better to have a new enemy, wouldn't it, instead of an old one? The demons of the past were the hardest to slay.

If you don't like th road your walking, start paving anotheer one

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

To stop learning is to die

this Earth. It seems like mankind evolves to a higher state and then they allow power and greed to completely absorb them and what they have learned. Then they are destroyed, and they take many, many steps backward.

They're calling the children the ones learning... the humans... the learning ones.

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

Agora até um frango tem mais tecnologia do que carne.

Buenos Aires puede volver a ser lo que fué, porque la civilización europea es tan {91} fuerte allí, que en despecho de las brutalidades del gobierno se ha de sostener.

But what can be learned from trivia? A history of inventions reveals we made the gun silencer (1908) before air conditioning (1911), the kaleidoscope (1817) before Braille printing (1829), cocaine (1860) before penicillin (1929). It's a story about pleasure before usefulness, about ingenuity in killing before improving our everyday lives." The Beautiful Miscellaneous,

There are no second acts. But I still believe there are, from time to time.

Il faut sautiller dans l'ascenseur pour qu'il consente à démarrer.

Once again, the wheel was turning; the time for rest was over.

we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn

For it was only via the idea of God that we were able to develop all our ideas about a unified self, reason, a unified law-governed cosmos, sovereignty, property, supervision (Providence) and management, long-term purposes and action to attain them and so on. God taught us everything, so that we are eternally grateful to God even as we now leave him behind.

Longing on a large scale is what makes history.

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.