Quotes with progress

  • Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.
  • Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our tools.
  • Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.
  • It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
  • Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
  • The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.
  • When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
  • Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.
  • The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.
  • The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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  • Kofi Annan Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
    The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General (1998)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Martin Luther King All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
    Speech Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 march 1954)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Barack Obama America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Ben Carson And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Barack Obama And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Alfred Adler Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Berthold Auerbach Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress in individuals and in nations.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Albert Pike Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Adam Schiff Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • Adam Clarke Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings Nothing recedes like progress.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Sir John Lubbock Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • George Orwell Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Santayana Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Joseph Joubert The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • John Stuart Mill A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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