1,930 Quotes About Progress

Philosophy hasn't made any progress? - If somebody scratches the spot where he has an itch, do we have to see some progress? Isn't genuine scratching otherwise, or genuine itching itching? And can't this reaction to an irritation continue in the same way for a long time before a cure for the itching is discovered?

Despite progress witnessed elsewhere in matters of the heart, parents in this part of the world haven’t quite come around to letting their adult offspring choose their lovers.

After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.

Using Microsoft Windows 10 has been marked by extremely poor computer performance whenever background updates are in progress.

It sounds like a lot when you summarize it, but I don't do all of it every day. If you want to know the truth, most days I feel like I'm miserably behind and only doing about half of what I should be doing. But when you look back you can see that you're building something. I think people who say 'Don't look back' are crazy. I wouldn't survive if I weren't looking back and patting myself on the back all the time for making it this far.

The day we run out of questions, will be the day we run out of life.

I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.

Knowledge is the lifeblood of progress.

Our progress has been almost exclusively technological, which means that we are able to manipulate the physical world ever more sensationally, to increase the speed, the span, and the powers of material existence without any clear idea of what to do with the time gained and the powers acquired.