Quotes about Progress
The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less.
— Frank Herbert
Think you carefully on this Bene Gesserit proverb and perhaps you will see: "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
— Frank Herbert
One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin — only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.
— Frank Herbert
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
— Frank Herbert
We are one life reaching out into a dark future.
— Frank Herbert
The concept of progress act as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
— Frank Herbert
There's no substitute for time in solving many problems,' Leto said. 'However, you can place too much reliance on it. I can accept no more delays.
— Frank Herbert
IF.' 'If you had only . . . If we had but. . .' He wanted to shout them into silence. 'Only fools prefer the past!
— Frank Herbert
as had happened so many times in the past, for every problem solved a new one was added. Beneath
— Frank Herbert
Whatever comes from behind the mountains must cross the dunes.
— Frank Herbert
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
— William James