Best progress & intellectual Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.”

Ifs Mind Happens Young Spirit Powerful Creative Progress Intellectual Contact Worldly Endeavour

Author:Will Self

“The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.”

Men Wells Kind Important Body Progress Society Materials Depends Higher Degrees Intellectual Advantage Labor Bread All Kinds Daily Bread

Book:The Descent of Man

Source: The Descent of Man

“the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress”

Needs Spiritual Progress Intellectual Mania

Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

“Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.”

“We must seek support in the moral values that have ensured the progress of our civilization. Honesty and hard work, responsibility and faith in our strength are bound to bring us success. There should be no place for despondency. The crisis can and must be fought by uniting our intellectual, spiritual and material resources.”

“Darwin believed in intellectual progress, but he believed that it would come smoothly and harmoniously and happily and it would eventually cover the whole world.”

World Whole Progress Intellectual Whole World

Author:James Moore

“It must be a very dour and pessimistic astronomer indeed who seriously doubts that there must be countless numbers of intelligent civilizations scattered throughout the universe on other planets which are orbiting around other stars. An attitude which asserts that man is the only intelligent life form in the universe is intolerably arrogant today ... anyone who holds such an opinion today is, fortunately for those who like to see some progress in human conceptions, something of an intellectual freak equivalent to a believer in the Flat Earth Theory.”

“Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.”

Men Humans Loses Loss Moral Steps Progress Mankind Intellectual Gains Good Things Investment All Time Permanent One Man Human History

Book:The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man

Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man

“Progress is slow partly from mere intellectual inertia. In a subject where there is no agreed procedure for knocking out errors, doctrines have a long life. A professor teaches what he was taught, and his pupils, with a proper respect and reverence for teachers, set up a resistance against his critics for no other reason than that it was he whose pupils they were.”

Long Reason Teach Teacher Progress Subjects Taught Intellectual Errors Mere Critics Resistance Doctrine Professors Reverence Long Life Procedures Pupils Knocking Inertia

Author:Joan Robinson

“Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the true instruction is not that which transmits notions wholly formed, but that which renders him capable of forming for himself good opinions. That which they have said in regard to the intellectual faculties applies equally to the moral faculties. There is for the soul a spontaneous culture, on which depends all the real progress in perfection.”

Said Real Soul Culture Moral Opinion Progress Depends Capable Intellectual Perfection Regard Depth Notion Philosopher Faculty Instruction Spontaneous Pupils Transmit

Author:Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

“Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.”

“Material advancement has its share in moral and intellectual progress. Becky Sharp's acute remark that it is not difficult to be virtuous on ten thousand a year has its applications to nations; and it is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross.”

Source: Science and Culture: And Other Essays

“Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts, a deceiver, a means of unleashing vast evil in the world of the most unexpected and undetected sort and the greatest diverter of human productivity ever concocted by those who do not believe in authentic social and economic progress.”

“The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.”

Spiritual Study Progress Intellectual Bases Mathematics Indispensable Spiritual Progress

Author:Francis Cornford

“Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.”

“The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow.”

Years Mind Littles Long Life Is Joy Sun Our Lives Progress Sorrow Intellectual Notes Dues Dawn Risen Heed Infancy Boyhood Joys And Sorrows

Author:Bryan Procter

“We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical growth any more than our progress as individuals has to be defined in terms of physical growth. Physical growth of the body reaches a limit, but the character and the soul of the individual continues to grow, or at least has a chance to continue, often to our last breath. It is simple minded to define our well being in material terms, when that well-being has an aesthetic dimension, and intellectual dimension, a moral dimension.”

“Vegetarianism is not implicitly important for the mental progress or the intellectual development, unless it is supposed to be a remedy to clean the body from slag. A temporary abstinence from meat or animal food is indicated only for very specific magic operations as a sort of preparation, and even then only for a certain period. All this is to be considered with respect to sexual life.”

“It is an unfortunate fact that every man who seeks to disseminate knowledge must contend not only against ignorance itself, but against false instruction as well. No sooner do we deem ourselves free from a particularly gross superstition, than we are confronted by some enemy to learning who would set aside all the intellectual progress of years, and plunge us back into the darkness of mediaeval disbelief.”

Men Years Wells Facts Enemy Darkness Progress Ignorance Intellectual Every Man Instruction Superstitions Unfortunate Gross Disbelief Plunge

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels.”

Progress Written Intellectual Infidel

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.”

Men Giving Mind Ideas Done Certain Growth Religious Progress Subjects He Man Giving Up Intellectual Servant Superstitions Intellectual Growth

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Intellectual methods-study and reason-are essential to our progress toward eternal life, but they are not sufficient. They can prepare the way. They can get the mind ready to receive the Spirit. But what the scriptures call conversion-the change of mind and heart that gives us the direction and strength to move resolutely toward eternal life-comes only by the witness and power of the Holy Spirit.”

“One can say that the disaffection is still a lingering naiveté about, not the place of poetry in the world, but - how to say this - the moral and intellectual presence of poets in the world. And while this may seem an old conversation to many poets who roll their eyes and say, "Here we go again about the function of poetry," I think that conversation, about poetry as an engaged art in a world that is full of regression or still lacking in progress, is still really not well-developed. It's almost an avoided conversation.”

Thinking World Wells May Art Stills Seems Eye Moral Progress Poet Conversation Intellectual Function Engaged Lacking Avoided Lingering Regression Here We Go Again

Author:Fady Joudah

“The progress of dynamic ideals will not be eternally blocked. Through general, moral and intellectual advancement... shall the latent aspiration of justice for the animal kingdom come out into the open, when the time is ripe.”

Justice Animal Moral Progress Intellectual Ideals Kingdoms Aspiration Animal Rights Advancement Ripe Blocked Latent Animal Kingdom Kingdom Come

Author:Abraham Isaac Kook

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