Quotes about Progress
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
— Mahatma Gandhi
One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.
— Mark Twain
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
— Phillips Brooks
From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The machine unmakes the man. Now that the machine is so perfect, the engineer is nobody.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is a new method.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
— Henry David Thoreau
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?
— Henry David Thoreau
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
— Henry David Thoreau
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.
— Henry David Thoreau