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The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past. - John Ruskin The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian. - William Gilmore Simms The march of intellect. - Robert Southey, Sir Thos. More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society (vol. II, p. 361) The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. [Fr., L'esprit humain fait progres toujours, mais c'est progres en spirale.] - Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein) If you strike a thorn or rose, Keep a-goin'! If it hails or if it snows, Keep a-goin'! 'Tain't no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait you hook an' keep on tryin', Keep a-goin'! - Frank Lebby Stanton, Keep a-goin' Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother. - Edmund Clarence Stedman We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. - Tom Stoppard Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress. - Charles Sumner When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. - Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali (37) The stone that is rolling can gather no moss. Who often removeth is suer of loss. - Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry--Lessons (st. 46) He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. [Fr., Qui n'a pas l'esprit de son age, De son age a tout le malheur.] - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire), Lettre a Cideville Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. - Alfred North Whitehead Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. - Norbert Wiener Press on!--"For in the grave there is no work And no device"--Press on! while yet ye may! - Nathaniel Parker Willis, From a Poem Delivered at Yale College (l. 45) Without deviation, progress is not possible. - Frank Zappa Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land. - Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-Tung) (Chairman Mao) Displaying page 5 of 5 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 4 [5]
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