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.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
All progress is experimental.
New roads; new ruts.
Nothing recedes like progress.
I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another.
The walking of Man is falling forwards.
Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
A lot of what appears to be progress is just so much technological rococo.
The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.
Progress is the stride of God.
The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.
It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it.
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