Quotes About Advancement

Never try to leap from a standstill.

I start where the last man left off. What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of a man can achieve.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved - all the arts flourish more gracefully - all the sciences extend their range.

Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

I'm a better person now, and not only that - I'm a better man

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'