progress Quotes

“The great steps in its progress have been made, are made, and will be made, by men who seek knowledge simply because they crave for it.”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

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“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

“Physical science therefore rests on verified or uncontradicted hypotheses; and, such being the case, it is not surprising that a great condition of its progress has been the invention of verifiable hypotheses.”

― Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century

“Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

“If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“For a closed society is not open to ideas of progress—and a police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.”

― John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Address

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“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”

― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

“If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism

topic:virtue progress

“To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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