Progress Quotes
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"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence."
"As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning."
"No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere."
"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."
"The aching in my chest isn't because I miss you,it's realizing that you have become someone I no longer know,your fears, your 4 am thoughts, your achievements,are things I no longer have an equivalent to.Who we were and who we are are four different people, and the me from now doesn't relate to the me from then, let alone to the you from now.-Tanzy Sayadi and Jarod Kintz"
"We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it."
"To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people."
"Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress."
"[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of scientific advance without moral advance? The railway would merely permit more people to move about, meet and be stupid together."
"The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour."
"Temporis filia veritas; cui me obstetricari non pudet.Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife."
"The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation."
"This is what I believe to be the progress of a writer. You write 10 things, of which one of them will be great. You then write 11 things, of which two of them will be great. Then you write 12 things, of which four of them will be great. Then you write 13 things, of which eight of them will be great. Finally you write 14 things, of which 16 of those 14 things will be great."
"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."
"A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress."
"Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity."
"I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself."
"Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress."
"To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of 'otherness' and instead embrace 'togetherness'."
"Yes, yes, I see it all! — an enormous social activity, a mighty civilization, a profuseness of science, of art, of industry, of morality, and afterwords, when we have filled the world with industrial marvels, with great factories, with roads, museums and libraries, we shall fall exhausted at the foot of it all, and it will subsist — for whom? Was man made for science or was science made for man?"
"She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails that went off into black holes where green and red lights hung as distant drops of color. There was nothing else to dilute it, so that one could admire naked purpose and the ingenuity that had achieved it."
"When we consider the magnitude and extent of his discoveries and their influence on the progress of science and of industry, there is no honour too great to pay to the memory of Faraday, one of the greatest scientific discoverers of all time."
"Commitment mixed with drive and sprinkled with imagination creates sustained results. Stay focused and you will make your mark!"
"Always let your talent and tenacity do the talking. Never your tantrums or sense of self righteousness or entitlement. For it is your talent and tenacity that will carve out, shape and seal your possibilities and destiny."
"Pessoas orgulhosas criam grandes tristezas para si mesmas"
"We can live forever even with an impactful shorter-life."
"Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office."
"As man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his own rights, he begins to value the rights of others. And when all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized."
"An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which lies precisely in this progress and the descendants would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious manner.."
Immanuel Kant, An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
"Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,—this is the very struggle of progress."
"...[G]reat progress was evident in the last Congress of the American 'Labour Union' in that among other things, it treated working women with complete equality. While in this respect the English, and still more the gallant French, are burdened with a spirit of narrow-mindedness. Anybody who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex (the ugly ones included)."
Karl Marx, Selected Letters: The Personal Correspondence 1844-1877
"Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future."
"We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress for true change. Every person, molecule and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush."
"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened."
"In history, truth should be held sacred, at whatever cost . . . especially against the narrow and futile patriotism, which, instead of pressing forward in pursuit of truth, takes pride in walking backwards to cover the slightest nakedness of our forefathers."
"Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to or repel certain subjects."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience."
"When you are in his sort of business - now my business - you are not defined by who you are but who you are not."
Anthony Horowitz, Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin
"Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself."
"As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission."
"You can't have favour with God and suffer in life. Learn to have God's favour first, and the favour of men will fall in place automatically for you."
"When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the brightest rays of religion can penetrate the darkest corners of the human society."
Abhijit Naskar, Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
"Arise, my friend – the world is wailing for kindness – it is wailing for compassion – it is wailing for love."
"Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol – a symbol of hope – a symbol of wisdom – yet this very symbol has become disgraced by our faults and deluded justification of mistakes."
"What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!"
"Shallow intellect is worse than ignorance. Ignorance can be treated with knowledge, but shallow intellect, that is illusion of knowledge, is untreatable and quite dangerous to the progress and wellbeing of humanity."
Abhijit Naskar, Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
"Moving on feels heavy because you have been weighed down by fear"
"How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don't let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses"
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