1,930 Quotes About Progress

Whatever we do as adults, we make in our children more of what we are. Is there no end to this? Scholars speak of progress, but I fear now that they are mistaken. This is not progress that we see, it is elaboration. Nothing of the old ways ever goes away, it just hides beneath modernity’s confusion.

Setting goals give you a life to live. When you have zero goals its life that consumes you.

In India there’s no modernism without barbarism. Strip away the young man’s face and you’ll find an old man’s mind.

Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. In our mad rush for progress and modern improvements let's be sure we take along with us all the old-fashioned things worth while.

Technology evolves, language changes, the voice breaks, fate overtakes us.Naming things is never innocent. It is to precipitate them beyond their own existence into the ecstasy of language which is already the ecstasy of their end.We have no more reasons to exist than stones and if one part of our life is in the sun, then, necessarily, the other is in the cold of hell.

And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:Their only monument the asphalt roadAnd a thousand lost golf balls.

To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?