Famous Quotes & Sayings

John F. Kerry

There is some schedule showing what you (need) to do to get Iraqis standing up and defending themselves which is now suddenly beginning to happen, so there are some signs of progress.

John O'Donohue

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

The history of the Erie Railroad ever since 1901 has been a record of progress

John Dewey

A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

John Dewey

Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes.

John Bates Clark

As the work progresses the careful reader will insert mental interrogation points here and there. He will find that his interest increases as the interrogation points become more frequent, and that it culminates where they are changed to marks of positive dissent. I venture to record the opinion that the value of the work reaches a maximum in a passage that is demonstrably incorrect.

Linda Ronstadt

Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

Never should the power of an individual be allowed to impede the progress of the rest of the nation; never should the power of a nation be allowed to impede the progress of mankind.

Leo Tolstoy

Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

Lewis Black

It's 2003. Why can't I teleport?

John McAfee

Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.

John Maynard Keynes

It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.

George MacDonald

The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the world of science and invention to a wide degree. Also, there were no "professionals". This was a time when amateur explorers, naturalists and enthusiasts were are still making major contributions to progress.

Katherine Anne Porter

I do not understand the world, but I watch it's progress.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.

John Chamberlain

Thus a new way of finding fluidity will inevitably be imposed on management and labor alike. The profit-sharing, or "progress" sharing union contract is the only possible way of satisfying labor and the consumer without saddling industry with fixed costs that in depression periods can kill off marginal companies like flies.

Lord Acton

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

Ludwig Quidde

Disarmament or limitation of armaments, which depends on the progress made on security, also contributes to the maintenance of peace.

Lucy Stone

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

One can not impede scientific progress.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Rest and activity are the steps of progress.

Freda Adler

It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.

Julian Huxley

...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge.

Paul Kagame

National security is vital for economic and social progress.

Paul Dirac

Scientific progress is measured in units of courage, not intelligence.

Paul Dirac

Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.

Paul Davies

Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first steps on the road to life, but little progress has been made. Perhaps that is no surprise, given life's stupendous complexity.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

Louis Pasteur

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

Edward de Bono

A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.