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Letter "P" » Progress
«Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.»
Author: Bernard Berenson
| About:
Consistency,
Ignorance,
Improvement,
Progress
| Keywords:
As You Were, consistency
«All progress occurs because people dare to be different.»
«After several thousand years, we have advanced to the point where we bolt our doors and windows and turn on our burglar alarms - while the jungle natives sleep in open-door huts»
Author: Morris Mandel
| About:
Progress
| Keywords:
advanced, alarms, bolt, burglar, Doors And Windows, huts, jungle, Natives, open door, sleep in, The Jungle, The Turning Point, to the point, turning point, turn on
«Death is really a great blessing for humanity without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not any hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient Stimulus to be creative.»
Author: Alfred Adler
| About:
Blessings,
Death and dying,
Mankind,
Progress
| Keywords:
discourage, hamper, hampered, hampering, hampers
«Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Generosity,
Progress,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
doors, opener
«All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.»
«All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.»
Author: Tennessee Williams
| About:
God,
Humanity,
Progress
| Keywords:
guinea, guinea pig, Guinea Pigs, in progress, laboratories, laboratory, pigs, work in, work in progress
«All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Civilization,
Progress
| Keywords:
axe, criminal, laud, lauded, pathological, technological, technological progress, The Axe, the Hand
«All progress means war with society.»
«All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.»
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