PROGRESS

Related Subjects: Discovery, Evolution, Future, Improvement, Invention, Pioneer, Science

1. The march of the human mind is slow.—BURKE, Speech on Conciliation
   

2. The struggle I had made to graduate taught me a great lesson—that it is by struggle that we progress. I learned concentration during that time I never thought I possessed.—ADMIRAL BYRD, Exploring with Byrd
   

3. Almost everything that you believe now was scouted at and hissed scarcely a hundred years ago. Most acts of humanity that we practice today would have been despised and denied two hundred years ago. The world is moving and as it moves brutality is further off and humanity is nearer at hand.—CLARENCE DARROW
   

4. Progress has been much more general than retrogression.—DARWIN, Descent of Man
   

5. So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. The reaction must come.—HENRY GEORGE, Progress and Poverty
   

6. All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.—GIBBON, Decline and Fall
   

7. The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.—THOMAS HUXLEY, On Medical Education
   

8. Those who first oppose a good work
   Seize it and make it their own,
   When the corner-stone is laid,
   And memorial tablets are erected.—EDGAR LEE MASTERS, Spoon River Anthology
   

9. The test of our progress is not whether we add, more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.—FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
   

10. An' the on'y thing you got to look at is that ever' time they's a little step fo'ward, she may slip back a little, but she never slips clear back. You can prove that an' that makes the whole thing right. An' that means they wasn't no waste even if it seemed like they was.—JOHN STEINBECK, The Grapes of Wrath
    

11. Yet sometimes glimpses on my sight,
    Through present wrong the eternal right;
    And, step by step, since time began,
    I see the steady gain of man.—WHITTIER, The Chapel of the Hermits