Quotes about Progress
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
The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.
— Henry David Thoreau