Quotessence
Home / Topics / Progress Quotes

Progress Quotes

Browse 5477 quotes about Progress.

Related topics

IfsPeopleMenWorldHumansMadeThinkingWayHas BeensScienceYearsKnowsMayMeanShouldWantIdeasCountryStillsBelieveFirstsNeedsDoeEvolutionMovingSocialEndsMindWork In ProgressGivingStepsLittlesGrowthLongTryingArtIndividualHuman ProgressGoalNationsWellsFeelsProblemRealFactsCivilizationDevelopmentEconomicGovernmentImportantInspirationalKindStatesSpiritualSeemsLooksMoralTwoHelpingReasonMatterPastTechnologyTodayHumanityImprovementPersonsRacePoliticalResultsWarLawDifferentForceSpiritWould BeGrowsHeartNaturalWholeAgeDependsLifeOrderUseDoneLastsProcessAmericaHandsSocial ProgressUnderstandingActionEffortEnoughOpportunitySometimesCultureSelfSoulmore

Progress Quotes

“The progress in Iraq is still fragile. And it could still be reversed. Iraq still faces innumerable challenges, and they will be evident during what will likely be a difficult process as the newly elected Council of Representatives selects the next prime minister, president, and speaker of the council.”

StillsFacesNextProcessDifficultPresidentChallengesProgressIraqMinistersPrimeFragileSpeakersRepresentativesEvidentPrime MinisterCouncil
Author:David Petraeus
Create image

“A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.”

LooksStillsSchoolResultsNovelProgressHeardChangedHigh SchoolHollywoodElectionProducersLife ChangingScreenwritersDrawersWishbones
Author:Tom Perrotta
Create image

“No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.”

ChildrenStillsLife IsCultureCompassionMoralPrinciplesTeachProgressConscienceBuiltAll ThingsBottomTalesIdiotMeaninglessFragmentsRelativismMoral PrinciplesSignifying
Author:Michael Novak
Create image

“We still do not know the mechanics of evolution in spite of the over-confident claims in some quarters, nor are we likely to make further progress in this by the classical methods of paleontology or biology; and we shall certainly not advance matters by jumping up and down shrilling, `Darwin is god and I, So-and-so, am his prophet'”

KnowsStillsMatterProgressEvolutionClaimsMethodProphetSpiteBiologyQuartersMechanicJumpingUp And DownPaleontologyOver Confident
Author:Errol White
Create image

“[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.”

PeopleThinkingWorldWayHumansStillsMatterDoneCertainSufferingChurchMoralProgressObjectsOughtMoralityMajorsImprovementChosenLabelsOpponentsDiminishMaking People HappyHuman Happiness
Book:Why I Am Not a Christian
Create image

“Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.”

StillsPoliticalTechnologyPowerDemocracyProgressEconomicCapitalismExpectedNovelistsConcentrationFlourishingEconomic PowerCentralization
Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
Create image

“The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth. Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure.”

PeopleHumansMadeStillsProblemEarthAmericaLyingForceImaginationAnswersQualityProgressFieldsPrideEntrepreneurUniversityProsperityHardestFactoriesHuman HistoryLaboratoryDon't Lie
Author:Barack Obama
Create image

“I believe that space travel will one day become as common as airline travel is today. I'm convinced, however, that the true future of space travel does not lie with government agencies -- NASA is still obsessed with the idea that the primary purpose of the space program is science -- but real progress will come from private companies competing to provide the ultimate adventure ride, and NASA will receive the trickle-down benefits.”

BelieveDoeStillsIdeasRealGovernmentTodayLyingPurposeI BelieveSpaceCommonCompanyProgressAdventureOne DayBenefitsProgramUltimateConvincedPrimariesObsessedAgencyCompetingAirlineNasaSpace TravelSpace ProgramTrickle DownGovernment Agencies
Book:Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon
Create image

“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
Create image

“Every day His servants are dying modestly and peacefully--not a word of victory on their lips; but Christ's deep triumph in their hearts--watching the slow progress of their own decay, and yet so far emancipated from personal anxiety that they are still able to think and plan for others, not knowing that they are doing any great thing. They die, and the world hears nothing of them; and yet theirs was the completest victory. They came to the battle field, the field to which they had been looking forward all their lives, and the enemy was not to be found. There was no foe to fight with.”

ThinkingWorldHeartStillsAbleDeathDiesFightingFoundChristEnemyKnowingProgressPlansDyingFieldsVictoryBattleAnxietyLipsGreat ThingsTriumphServantDecayNot KnowingFoeLooking ForwardSlow Progress
Book:Sermons Preached at Brighton
Create image

“But weightier still are the contentment which comes from work well done, the sense of the value of science for its own sake, insatiable curiosity, and, above all, the pleasure of masterly performance and of the chase. These are the effective forces which move the scientist. The first condition for the progress of science is to bring them into play.”

FirstsWellsStillsDonePlayMovingScienceValuesForcePleasureProgressConditionsPerformancesScientistCuriositySakeMotiveContentmentWell DoneInsatiableWork Well Done
Author:Lawrence Joseph Henderson
Create image

“By 1940 the literacy figure for all states stood at 96 percent for whites. Eighty percent for blacks. Notice for all the disadvantages blacks labored under, four of five were still literate. Six decades later, at the end of the 20th century, the National Adult Literacy Survey and the National Assessment of Educational Progress say 40 percent of blacks and 17 percent of whites can't read at all. Put another way, black illiteracy doubled, white illiteracy quadrupled, despite the fact that we spend three or four times as much real money on schooling as we did 60 years ago.”

WayYearsStillsRealEndsStatesFactsThreeBlackWhiteFiveFourProgressCenturyFiguresSixPercentAdultsYears AgoEducationalDecadesDespite20th CenturyLiteracyAnother WayEightyDisadvantagesSchoolingSurveysAssessmentIlliteracyAll State
Author:Vin Suprynowicz
Create image

“Superstring theories provide a framework in which the force of gravity may be united with the other three forces in nature: the weak, electromagnetic and strong forces. Recent progress has shown that the most promising superstring theories follow from a single theory. For the last generation, physicists have studied five string theories and one close cousin. Recently it has become clear that these five or six theories are different limiting cases of one theory which, though still scarcely understood, is the candidate for superunification of the forces of nature.”

MayStillsDifferentLastsThreeStrongForceUnitedCasesClearFiveProgressGenerationsTheorySixUnderstoodWeakCandidatesStringsGravityCousinPhysicistFrameworkForces Of NatureString Theory
Author:Edward Witten
Create image

“When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain.”

KnowsStillsProblemBodyCertainOrderFoundAnswersRoomsResultsDoubtProgressIgnoranceDegreesScientistImportanceStatementsIgnorantUncertaintyUncertainParamountUnsureHunchesScientific KnowledgeUncertainty And Doubt
Author:Richard P. Feynman
Create image

“Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.”

WayStillsDesireProgressObjectsFormerLatterFelicity
Book:The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750
Create image

“The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the world of science and invention to a wide degree. Also, there were no "professionals". This was a time when amateur explorers, naturalists and enthusiasts were are still making major contributions to progress.”

WorldStillsMomentsLastsProgressCenturyDegreesMajorsWideInventionEducatedContributionNineteenth CenturyExplorersNaturalist
Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
Create image

“Anxieties about ourselves endure. If our proper study is indeed the study of humankind, then it has seemed-and still seems-to many that the study is dangerous. Perhaps we shall find out that we were not what we took ourselves to be. But if the historical development of science has indeed sometimes pricked our vanity, it has not plunged us into an abyss of immorality. Arguably, it has liberated us from misconceptions, and thereby aided us in our moral progress.”

IfsStillsSometimesSeemsMoralStudyProgressDangerousDevelopmentAnxietyHistoricalEndureVanityHumankindAbyssLiberatedMisconceptionImmorality
Book:Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism
Create image

“Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes to the world's prosperity. Political commotions upon the grandest scale, political events of astounding suddenness, political characters of the greatest ability, abound, but still, permanent results are rare, and we look in vain for a measure of public good corresponding in extent to the hideous rout which ushers it in. Progress but turns upon its pillow, and goes to sleep again.”

WorldHumansLooksLittlesStillsCharacterPoliticalTurnsSleepAbilityResultsProgressEventsAffairProsperityScalesVainPermanentDepartmentSurprisingPillowHideousNoisyCorrespondingPublic Good
Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Create image

“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.”

ThinkingWorldWellsMayArtStillsSeemsEyeMoralProgressPoetConversationIntellectualFunctionEngagedLackingAvoidedLingeringRegressionHere We Go Again
Author:Fady Joudah
Create image

“We have health insurance companies playing a major role in the provision of healthcare, both to the employed whose employers provide health insurance, and to those who are working but on their own are not able to afford it and their employers either don't provide it, or don't provide it at an affordable price. We are still struggling. We've made a lot of progress. Ten million Americans now have insurance who didn't have it before the Affordable Care Act, and that is a great step forward.”

MadeStillsCareAbleCompanyStepsRolesMillionsStruggleProgressTenMajorsHealthcareEmployedEmployersProvisionAffordableSteps ForwardInsurance CompaniesAffordable Care ActHealth Insurance Companies
Author:Hillary Clinton
Create image