Quotes about Progress
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
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
— Mahatma Gandhi