1,930 Quotes About Progress

Much like life, I can stand at rivers edge and never know anything other than this place, or I can submerge myself in the river and know every place. For the former never moves, but the latter never does not.

Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when life in the Khumbu was so much simpler and more picturesque. Most of the people who live in this rugged country seem to have no desire to be severed from the modern world or the untidy flow of human progress. The last thing Sherpas want is to be preserved as specimens in an anthropological museum.

Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil.

May the hopes of your heart and dreams of your eyes keep turning into realities. To all women out there: The more you progress, the more humanity progresses.

Histories of morality are rarely written in order to inform the reader.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his mental equipment is one of the absurdities developed from studies in this field that has long since been discarded by science. The ideas of the phrenologist Gall, however ridiculous they may now seem in the light of a century's progress, were nevertheless destined to become metamorphosed into the modern principles of cerebral localization.

Nourish your reasoning skills my friend, they are the most effective tool you can ever have in the path of progress.