Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms, but to their molecular groupings-the way is never ending and the progress infinitely delightful and profitable.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ideas, Progress, Matter

• The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Wise, Men, Law

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.113

• Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ideas, Progress, Endless

• Out of politics comes more uproar than progress. It is indeed surprising how little, comparatively, this noisy department of human affairs contributes to the world's prosperity. Political commotions upon the grandest scale, political events of astounding suddenness, political characters of the greatest ability, abound, but still, permanent results are rare, and we look in vain for a measure of public good corresponding in extent to the hideous rout which ushers it in. Progress but turns upon its pillow, and goes to sleep again.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Sleep, Political

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.93

• An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Ambition, Progress, Aim

• The great obstacle to progress is prejudice

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Progress, Prejudice, Obstacles

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.105

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