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 | The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 12 likes |
 | Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 10 likes |
 | Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 10 likes |
| Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 10 likes |
 | A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 8 likes |
 | Progress results from persistence with purpose. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 8 likes |
 | The criterion of “progress” between two cultures or two eras consists of a greater capacity to kill. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 8 likes |
 | Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 8 likes |
 | Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. — Frank Zappa, 1940-1993, American musician 8 likes |
| All progress means war with Society. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 7 likes |
 | Progress, that great heresy of degenerates. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 7 likes |
 | The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 7 likes |
 | The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. — Nikola Tesla, 1856-1943, Serbian-American inventor 7 likes |
 | Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 6 likes |
 | Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 5 likes |
| Progress is not created by contented people. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 5 likes |
| Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 5 likes |
| It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 5 likes |
 | Unless we progress, we regress. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 5 likes |
 | The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be. — Ferdinand Foch, 1851-1929, French field marshal 5 likes |
 | Progress celebrates Pyrrhic victories over nature. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 4 likes |
 | All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 4 likes |
 | Our permanent address is tomorrow. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 4 likes |
| War is never anything less than accelerated technological change. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 4 likes |
 | Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors. — Jules Verne, 1826-1905, French writer 4 likes |
 | All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. — Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794, English historian 4 likes |
 | The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together. — Bill Gates, 1955-, American businessman 4 likes |
 | What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. — Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939, Austrian psychologist, founder of psychoanalysis 3 likes |
| Progress is a doctrine of idlers and Belgians. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 3 likes |
 | The progress of society is mainly—is, in its proper sense, the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. — Rutherford B. Hayes, 1822-1893, American President [1877-1881] 3 likes |
 | Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 3 likes |
 | Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 2 likes |
 | It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 2 likes |
 | I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction. — John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American writer, Nobel 1962 1 likes |
| Every ceiling reached becomes a floor. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 1 likes |
| Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 1 likes |
 | Science knows only one commandment: contribute to science. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 1 likes |
 | During my 87 years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman 1 likes |
 | I don't know what London’s coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals. — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 1 likes |
 | Progress just means bad things happen faster. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
| Our technology forces us to live mythically. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 1 likes |
 | Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher 1 likes |
| By your stumbling, the world is perfected. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher 1 likes |
 | People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 1 likes |
 | The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the US is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist 1 likes |
| People are the common denominator of progress. So, paucis verbis, no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist 1 likes |
 | Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 1 likes |
 | All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 1 likes |
 | Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. — Robert Heinlein, 1907-1988, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 1 likes |
 | Progress usually comes from barbarians, and nothing has become more stagnant than the philosophy of philosophers and the theology of theologians. — Miguel de Unamuno, 1864-1936, Spanish writer & philosopher 1 likes |
 | Genius cannot be prudent. If it acts prudently, it will never be able to expand the sphere of human progress. — Gustave Le Bon, 1841-1931, French polymath & writer 1 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be. — Bill Vaughan, 1915-1977, American journalist 1 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | A well governed state is the best environment for growth. Πόλις ευ αγομένη μεγίστη όρθωσις εστι. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
Special Quotes
 | Progress is our most important product. — Advertising slogan, General Electric 3 likes |
