Quotes about Progress
The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.
- GK Chesterton
Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.
- GK Chesterton
And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.
- Abraham Lincoln
I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
- Abraham Lincoln
Old men must die, or the world would grow mouldy, would only breed the past again.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
- CS Lewis
A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.
- Charles Spurgeon
Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.
- GK Chesterton
Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.
- GK Chesterton
For those that think men make progress collectively, I warn you, history teaches: You couldn't be more wrong.
- Glenn Beck