Famous Quotes & Sayings

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?

The continuation of talks shows there is progress.

Julia Cameron

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

This was a tragic event, but there may be some opportunities here for us. Let's just say we're making progress.

Jim DeMint

Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

Gillian Anderson

Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the extreme where violence against women is legal and supported and in other cultures it is more subversive and easy to dismiss as "progress."

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

Patrick J. Kennedy

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.