Advancement Quotes - Page 4

• Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.

  H. Jay Dinshah

  Equality, Men, Hyenas

  "Compassion, the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism" by Victoria Moran, (p. 32), 1985.

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• I must break out...
  ...start a new life...
  been here for years...
  might be getting into a rut...
  something a bit more exciting...
  more adventurous...
  something with more of a challenge...
  There's not much opportunity for self-advancement in toilets.

  Raymond Briggs

  Opportunity, Self, Years

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• If you take the approach that “good” is not an accident - that everyone and everything that shows up in your life is there for a reason - you’ll begin to see every event (no matter how difficult or challenging) as a chance for enrichment and advancement in your life.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Life, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Feb 28, 2013

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• If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to the dogmas propounded by the Church which is different from that which the Church has understood and understands: let him be anathema.

  Pope Pius IX

  Church, Different, May

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• Animal research has lead to advances in the treatment of many conditions... Where there is no alternative available, we will continue to ensure that the balance between animal welfare and scientific advancement is maintained.

  Andy Burnham

  Animal, Balance, Research

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• One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

  Eric Hoffer

  Failure, Years, Effort

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• There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that we find sects and parties in most branches of science [and politics]; and disputes that are carried on from age to age, without being brought to issue.

  Thomas Reid

  Party, Issues, Age

  Thomas Reid, Ronald E. Beanblossom, Keith Lehrer (1983). “Thomas Reid's Inquiry and Essays”, p.129, Hackett Publishing

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• Instead of encouraging the student to devote himself to his studies for the sake of studying, instead of encouraging in him a real love for his subject and for inquiry, he is encouraged to study for the sake of his personal career; he is led to acquire only such knowledge as is serviceable in getting him over the hurdles which he must clear for the sake of his advancement.

  Karl Popper

  Education, Real, Careers

  Karl R. Popper (2013). “The Open Society and Its Enemies”, p.128, Princeton University Press

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• The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

  Ivan Illich

  Teaching, Learning, Homeschooling

  Ivan Illich (1970). “The Dawn of Epimethean Man, and Other Essays”

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• When all material advancements utilized in spiritual need that is the real advancement of human civilization.

  Bhakti Charu Swami

  Spiritual, Real, Civilization

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• An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Sometimes

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.6180, Delphi Classics

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• Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to ‘Twitter’ transatlantically.

  Hans Rosling

  Queens, Eight, Years

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• Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom of thought and the advancement of learning.

  Hal Hellman

  Thinking, Use, Littles

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• Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.

  Humphry Davy

  Knowledge, Science, Instruments

  Sir Humphry Davy (1812). “Elements of Chemical Philosophy”, p.54

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• Nothing has tended more to retard the advancement of science than the disposition in vulgar minds to vilify what they cannot comprehend.

  Samuel Johnson

  Learning, Science, Mind

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• Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new era. ... today's announcement is such a breakthrough, a breakthrough that opens the way for massive advancement in the treatment of cancer and hereditary diseases. And that is only the beginning.

  Tony Blair

  Cancer, Science, Progress

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• Educators must resist the quest for certainty. If there were certainty there would be no scientific advancement.  So it is with morals and patriotism.

  John Goodlad

  Would Be, Quests, Moral

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• At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

  Paul Collier

  Block, Successful, Men

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• In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy. It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Thankful, Appreciation, Gratitude

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• I would [call myself a feminist], yes. I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still. I do think because women are so clever and flexible and such good communicators, it been hard for men to evolve and keep up. I think we could do a little better to help them out.

  Rashida Jones

  Clever, Believe, Men

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• The purpose of nature is the advancement and development of life.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Purpose, Development, Affirmation

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• Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect. [...] Equal laws protecting equal rights, are found as they ought to be presumed, the best guarantee of loyalty, and love of country; as well as best calculated to cherish that mutual respect and good will among citizens of every religious denomination which are necessary to social harmony and most favorable to the advancement of truth.

  James Madison

  Loyalty, Country, Religious

  Letter to Jacob De La Motta, printed in "Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, vol. 3" (1867), August 1820.

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• A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

  Victor Hugo

  Self, Atheism, Saint

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.

  Kaye Ballard

  Fundamentals, Philanthropy, Philanthropic

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• No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it. No matter what happens to you, no matter how unfair, inequitable or wrong, there's something you can take from the situation and use for your advancement.

  Peter McWilliams

  Stupid, Learning, Lessons To Be Learned

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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