Progress Quotes

“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”

“It is not possible for civilisation to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance its allotted length.”

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“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.”

“Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.”

“The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual.”

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”

“I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.”

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.”

“In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up, or else we all go down.”

“This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.”

“If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”

“In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.”

“At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.”

“We have cleared the forests, reclaimed the land, and are building cities, railroads, and great institutions.”

“We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road.”

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”

“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”

"The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow."

William Osler

"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."

Florence Nightingale