Quotes about Progress

No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake

It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.

I believe that better times are coming.

The time—which, looking back, seems so idyllic—is gone forever when individuals or relatively small groups could be completely self-sufficient. It is only a slight exaggeration to say that mankind constitutes even now a planetary community of production and consumption.

The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples' lives.

Every theory is killed sooner or later in that way. But if the theory has good in it, that good is embodied and continued in the next theory.

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis. ~ Albert Einstein

Life is like riding a bicycle. You must keep moving to maintain the balance.

It is no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.