| Author |
Quotes |
| Stanislaw Lem | Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork? |
| Theodore Roosevelt | Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse, for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | What is art But life upon the larger scale, the higher, When, graduating up in a spiral line Of still expanding and ascending gyres, It pushed toward the intense significance Of all things, hungry for the Infinite? Art's life--and where we live, we suffer and toil. |
| James Russell Lowell | From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text, And embryo good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the evil in its nature. |
| James Russell Lowell | New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth, They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth. |
| John Milton | That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat, descent and fall To give us is adverse. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying! |
| Ovidius Naso | What follows I flee, what flees I ever pursue. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | And striving to be Man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress. |
| Robert Browning | Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's, God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. |
| Robert Browning | Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun, But dream of him, and guess where he may be, And do the best to climb, and get to him. |
| Robert Browning | Progress is The law of life, man is not Man as yet. |
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