Quotes About Advancement

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series. Every general law only a particular fact of some more general law presently to disclose itself. There is no outside, no inclosing wall, no circumference to us. The

natural science is likely to be soon exhausted. Passing by many particulars of the discipline

Nature is transcendental, exists primarily, necessarily, ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.

This suspicion [selling out] often rubs up against another tendency in Black America: the habit of celebrating any promotion by a fellow Black as a sign of collective advancement.

we're the start of an amazing, dumbfounding history of survival that will only get better as the centuries pass.

The fact is we didn't get along well until photography came into its own. Then - motion pictures in the early twentieth century. Radio. Television. Things began to have mass.' 'And because they had mass, they became simpler

The law of life is the law of growth;

As Frederick Douglass said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

I may not be where I need to be but at least I am not where I used to be.

We all need to realize that we're on a journey, and we are making progress.

When fear comes, don't run away - don't let it stop you from going forward!

We are in an age of exponentially changing technologies. Ergo, we are in an age of exponentially changing ethics.

no man is born incapable of growth.

You must learn to see the world as something which is evolving and becoming; not as a finished work.

Nothing better is possible until we cease to be mental savages in industry and business, and become men and women. This can only come about by the rise of the whole race to a higher viewpoint. And this can only come about by the rise of such individuals here and there as are ready for the higher viewpoint.

The purpose of life for us is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth.

If the masses begin to move forward as suggested in this book, neither governments nor industrial systems can check them; all systems must be modified to accommodate the forward movement.

If the people have the Advancing Mind, have the Faith that they can become rich, and move forward with the fixed purpose to become rich, nothing can possibly keep them in poverty.

Any man who develops the power to perceive truth, and who can show that he always knows the right thing to do and that he can be trusted to do the right thing, will be honored and advanced.

Man was formed for growth, and all things external were designed to promote his growth.

The moderns, carrying little baggage of the kind that Shelly called "merely cultural," not even living in the traditional air, but breathing into their space helmets a scientific mixture of synthetic gases (and polluted at that) are the true pioneers. Their circuitry seems to include no atavistic domestic sentiment, they have suffered empathectomy, their computers hum no ghostly feedback of Home, Sweet Home. How marvelously free they are! How unutterably deprived!

I think the biggest innovations of the twenty-first century will be the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning, just like the digital one was when I was his age.