Quotes about Progress
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
- Oscar Wilde
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
- Oscar Wilde
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
- Oscar Wilde
The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.
- Oscar Wilde
roads were made for journeys not destinations
- Confucius
Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it
- Confucius
It doesn't matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop
- Confucius
Who builds in stone seeks to alter the structure of the universe.
- Cormac McCarthy
He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them. Y
- Cormac McCarthy
I think it is better to make a study of smaller things. Then the larger will follow. In smaller things one can progress. There one's efforts are repaid.
- Cormac McCarthy
All of history a rehearsal for its own extinction
- Cormac McCarthy
And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.
- DH Lawrence