Quotes of: Social-progress Keyword

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain.

My Inventions

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

Maskerade

The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.

Lake Wobegon Days

Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Perhaps forgiveness wasn’t a singular event, but a progression, or better, a dance that took some figuring before you could perform the steps.

Talking to the Dead

If you stay determined, the obstacles cannot stop your progress. You will triumph over every mountain.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

Perpetual Peace

Whoso beset him round With dismal stories Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is.

The Pilgrim's Progress

For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.

The Pilgrim's Progress

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

Voice of Reason

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

What I Saw in America

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...

The Wisdom Of Confucius

But even then I knew how it was going to be, I could feel the coming silence in the long, poisonous pauses that expanded as the night progressed.

While I Was Gone

It’s easy to demonstrate how progressive and open-minded and loyal you are when it costs you nothing.

We Learn Nothing

What is evolution if not creative adaptation and the progression of our own souls?

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

Alex Campbell

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Samuel Smiles

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

Samuel Smiles

Whatever you possess as an advantage over others, must be meticulously executed to produce desired results and progress.

Making Success Deliberate

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

Gerald Durrell

If the United States commits to the goal of reaching Mars, it will almost certainly do so in reaction to the progress of other nations - as was the case with NASA, the Apollo program, and the project that became the International Space Station.

Neil deGrasse Tyson