“The course of a great statesman resembles that of navigable rivers, avoiding immovable obstacles with noble bends of concession, seeking the broad levels of opinion on which men soonest settle and longest dwell, following and marking the almost imperceptible slopes of national tendency, yet always aiming at direct advances, always recruited from sources nearer heaven, and sometimes bursting open paths of progress and fruitful human commerce through what seem the eternal barriers of both.” MenHumansSometimesSeemsCoursesHeavenLevelsOpinionPathProgressSourceEternalRiversDirectSeekingFollowingObstaclesNobleTendenciesSettlingBarriersBroadsCommerceAvoidingStatesmenSlopesBurstingConcessions Book:My Study Windows Source: My Study Windows
“It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.” MindHumansLongHas BeensMadeStillsTurnsHeavenSpaceProgressModernCenturyTaughtComputerIdealsLogicMachinesSymbolsManipulationHuman MindFormalObscurePlatoTwentieth CenturyFractionsTaught UsTokensIntangibleIneffablePlatonicLong RoadPlato S Author:Allen Newell
“The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.” LightMovingIndividualHeavenRaceProgressLatitudeAlways Moving Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.” NeedsKindEndsPhilosophyStrongHeavenWonderKnowledgeProgressIgnoranceResearchPhilosophicalFoundationGenerousYieldHonour Author:Michel de Montaigne
“Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!” HumansHeavenRaceProgressEarsFoolishHuman Race Author:Theophile Gautier
“The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.” HeavenProgressEvolutionFoundationKingdomsKingdom Of Heaven Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“I always try to remember that I am a work in progress. It is life's journey that matters and the turns I take will determine how much progress I make. You see, I am unique in my gifts and the purpose I was created for. When I get to heaven at the end of my journey, I will not be asked what gifts He gave me, but what I did with them. Each one of us is a work in progress, with a mission and purpose to fulfill that is uniquely ours. Keep that in mind as you journey, won't you?” TryingMindEndsMatterRememberPurposeTurnsHeavenProgressJourneyUniqueDetermineMissionsMy JourneyWork In Progress Author:John C. Maxwell