Progress Quotes - Page 4

• We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Trying, Way

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.130, Princeton University Press

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• Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

  Karl Marx

  Sex, Philosophical, Female

  "Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes".

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• Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Progress Of Society, Cult, Superlatives

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Intelligent, Civilization, Agitation

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

  Franz Kafka

  Believe, Mean, Doe

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Preparation, Politics

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 5

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• We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Veterans Day, Witty, Military

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• Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Honesty, Future

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• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  Salman Rushdie

  Atheist, Ideas, Religion

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.

  Stephen Covey

  Moving, Thinking, Sin

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Confusion, Trials, Moral

  State of the Union Address, January 19, 1975.

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• Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Block, Order, Law

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Failure

  "The Diary and Sundry Observations of Thomas Alva Edison". Book by Thomas A. Edison, 1948.

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• This world of ours is a new world, in which the unit of knowledge, the nature of human communities, the order of society, the order of ideas, the very notions of society and culture have changed, and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new, not because it has never been there before, but because it has changed in quality.

  J. Robert Oppenheimer

  Past, Order, Ideas

  J. Robert Oppenheimer (2013). “Uncommon Sense”, p.84, Springer Science & Business Media

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• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 1

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Change, Wisdom, Memories

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, ch. 12 (1905)

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• All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Success, Creativity

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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• The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

  Seneca the Younger

  Desire, Greater

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• Speculation and the exploration of ideas beyond what we know with certainty are what lead to progress.

  Lisa Randall

  Ideas, Exploration, Certainty

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• If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

  William McDonough

  Motivation, Inspiration, Humility

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• A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

  Lolo Jones

  Success, Sports, Strong Women

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• The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Science, Knowing, Characteristics

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• What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

  Havelock Ellis

  Change, Progress And Change, Nuisance

  Impressions and Comments (1914) 31 July 1912

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• Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!

  Plato

  Advice, Matter, Discouraging

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• Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

  Vernon Howard

  Inspirational, Moving On, Spiritual

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