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The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.
-Anon.
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When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward.
-Swedish Proverb
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Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
-Chinese Proverb
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Live to live and you will learn to live.
-Proverb
Portuguese Proverb
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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
-Proverb
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Nobility doesn't lie in surpassing the other man, but in surpassing the previous self.
-Hindu Spiritual
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If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
-Charles M. Allen
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Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
-James Allen
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He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
-Susan B. Anthony
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When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim -- improve yourself.
-Gilbert Arland
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
-Isaac Asimov
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
-Gaston Bachelard
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
-Francis Bacon
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
-Walter Bagehot
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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.
-Stephen Bayley
Commerce and Culture, ch. 1 (1989)
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It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.
-Tony Benn
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If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
-Arthur Bloch
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The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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It is time that capital and labor realized that their interests are really comutual, as interdependent as the brain and the body; time they ceased their fratricidal strife and, uniting their mighty forces under the flag of Progress, completed the conquest of the world and doomed Poverty, Ignorance and Vice... Unless labor is employed, capital cannot increase - it cannot concentrate. Unless property rights are held inviolable and capital thereby encouraged to high enterprise, labor is left without a lever with which to lift itself to perfect life and must sink back to barbarism.
-William Cowper Brann
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Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
-Gelett Burgess
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The coming of the printing press must have seemed as if it would turn the world upside down in the way it spread and, above all, democratized knowledge. Provide you could pay and read, what was on the shelves in the new bookshops was yours for the taking. The speed with which printing presses and their operators fanned out across Europe is extraordinary. From the single Mainz press of 1457, it took only twenty-three years to establish presses in 110 towns: 50 in Italy, 30 in Germany, 9 in France, 8 in Spain, 8 in Holland, 4 in England, and so on.
-James Burke
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There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together
-Joseph Campbell
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There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
-Andrew Carnegie
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The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
-Oswald Chambers
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Books about Progress
