Quotes About Advancement

I shall do down in history as the man who opened a door!

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.

Uncorrupted man, with God's blessing, advances across the fields of the universe as though he were walking down a country lane.

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

A system of pitfalls thoughtfully prepared for the feet for the self-made man, along the path by which he advances to distinction.

We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

Man is something to be surpassed.

I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

Medieval learning was really advanced.

The world is too big for us. Too much is going on. Too many crimes, too much violence and excitement. Try as you will, you get behind in the race in spite of yourself. It is an incessant strain to keep pace, and still you lose ground. Science empties its discoveries on you so fast you stagger beneath them in hopeless bewilderness. . . . Everything is high-pressure. Human nature can't endure much more." —Atlantic Journal Editorial, June 16, 1833 The

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

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It is normal for Christians to grow, to work for growth, and to expect increasing spiritual maturity.

No history leads from savagery to humanitarianism, but there is one leads from the slingshot to the megaton bomb.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.