Progress Quotes

36 quotations about Progress
If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
Charles M. Allen · Progress
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard · Progress
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Walter Bagehot · Progress
All progress is experimental.
John Jay Chapman · Progress
New roads; new ruts.
Gilbert K. Chesterton · Progress
Nothing recedes like progress.
E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings · Progress
I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.
Madame Marie Curie · Progress
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another.
Havelock Ellis · Progress
The walking of Man is falling forwards.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Progress
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
Joyce Grenfell · Progress
A lot of what appears to be progress is just so much technological rococo.
Bill Grey · Progress
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
Sidney J. Harris · Progress
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
Nathaniel Hawthorne · Progress
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
Herbert Clark Hoover · Progress
Progress is the stride of God.
Victor Hugo · Progress
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
John F. Kennedy · Progress
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
Stanislaw J. Lec · Progress
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Abraham Lincoln · Progress
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln · Progress
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash · Progress
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
George Orwell · Progress
Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.
Pantanjali · Progress
It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
H. Ross Perot · Progress
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Alexander Pope · Progress
Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
Proverb · Progress

Authors on Progress

Charles M. Allen Gaston Bachelard Walter Bagehot John Jay Chapman Gilbert K. Chesterton Chinese Proverb E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings Madame Marie Curie Havelock Ellis Ralph Waldo Emerson Joyce Grenfell Bill Grey Sidney J. Harris Nathaniel Hawthorne Herbert Clark Hoover Victor Hugo John F. Kennedy Stanislaw J. Lec Abraham Lincoln Ogden Nash