Quotes about Progress
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
— Ayn Rand
The position of an art in the scale of human knowledge is, perhaps, the most eloquent symptom of the gulf between man's progress in the physical sciences and his stagnation (or, today, his retrogression) in the humanities.
— Ayn Rand
Begin now to be what you will be hereafter.
— St. Jerome
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
— St. Jerome
A tendency that's run through your family for generations can stop with you. You're a transition person — a link between past and future. And your own change can affect many, many lives downstream.
— Stephen Covey
I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.
— Stephen Covey
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them - Einstein
— Stephen Covey
The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time.
— Stephen Hawking
The human race does not have a very good record of intelligent behaviour.
— Stephen Hawking
The discovery that the universe was expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century.
— Stephen Hawking
We have seen in this chapter how, in less than half a century, man's view of the universe, formed over millennia, has been transformed.
— Stephen Hawking
We are all time travelers, journeying together into the future. But let us work together to make that future a place we want to visit.
— Stephen Hawking