Human Progress Quotes - Page 4

• Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress

  Wilferd Peterson

  Creativity, Ideas, Creative

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• If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.

  Thomas Reed

  Progress, Matter, Today

  "Orations and addresses".

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• All human victories, all human progress, stand upon the inner force.

  Maria Montessori

  Victory, Progress, Nihilism

  Maria Montessori (2003). “The Montessori Method”, p.20, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.

  David Simon

  Games, Feet, Leader

  "The escalating breakdown of urban society across the US" by David Simon, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

  Ernest Renan

  Individuality, Progress, Liberty

  Ernest Renan (1893). “The Future of Science”

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• Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led to democracy, human rights, and the protection of the environment. Humanists make no apologies for this. Humanists twist no biblical doctrine to justify such actions.

  Fred Edwords

  Religious, Apology, Biblical

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• Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress.

  Charles Kettering

  Philosophy, Writing, Science

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• Language is the biggest barrier to human progress because language is an encyclopedia of ignorance. Old perceptions are frozen into language and force us to look at the world in an old fashioned way.

  Edward de Bono

  Communication, Ignorance, Perception

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• These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion as if this religion were not the work of God but of man, or some kind of philosophical discovery susceptible of perfection by human efforts.

  Pope Pius IX

  Philosophical, Men, Catholic Religion

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• Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Horse, Communication, Progress

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• We have embarked globally on a path of unsustainable development. Our lifestyles, the way we produce goods and services, are all part of a system that is completely unsustainable. I see solutions to climate change leading to a much larger philosophical shift in the way human society develops. We need a new matrix to define what human progress is.

  Rajendra K. Pachauri

  Philosophical, Progress, Development

  "Nobel peace prize winner: 'It's all about green energy'" by Rajendra K. Pachauri, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2009.

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• During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if we take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and not merely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was the language of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of the civilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the IXth to the XIIth century there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religiuos, astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other human tongue.

  Philip Khuri Hitti

  Mother, Islamic, Philosophical

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• Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.

  Grove Karl Gilbert

  Knowledge, Science, Progress

  Grove Karl Gilbert (1896). “Presidential Address by Grove Karl Gilbert: With Constitution and Standing Rules, Abstracts of Minutes and Lists of Officers and Members, 1895”

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• In short, there are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on justice, not on injustice; on public tranquility, not on violence; on freedom, not on enslavement.

  Edmund Ezra Day

  Wise, Truth, Honesty

  "Education for Freedom and Responsibility: Selected Essays".

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• The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress toward being.

  Marlo Morgan

  Attachment, Progress, Steps

  Marlo Morgan (2009). “Mutant Message Down Under”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• ...knowledge is the cause of human progress.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Educational, Progress, Causes

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• Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And despite transitory and apparent successes, they are reduced to simple machinations destined to dissolution and failure.

  Pope John Paul II

  Faith, Inspiration, Simple

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• Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wisdom, Progress, Aberration

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Second Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.470, Vintage

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• Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

  Kofi Annan

  Children, Mean, Men

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

  Judith Stone

  Two, Progress, Stem

  Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books

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• Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As long as we only talk about economic classes, profit, salaries, and production, and as long as we believe that real human progress is determined by a particular system of distribution of wealth and goods, then we are not even close to what is essential.

  Julius Evola

  Real, Believe, Class

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• Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or condition of human progress, but human progress itself.

  William Kingdon Clifford

  Truth, Science, Errors

  William Kingdon Clifford, Leslie Stephen, Frederick Pollock (2011). “Lectures and Essays”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

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• Arms alone can give the world no permanent peace, no confident security. Arms are solely for defense - to protect from violent assault what we already have. They are only a costly insurance. They cannot add to human progress.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Giving, Progress

  Eisenhower, Dwight D (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1956”, p.419, Best Books on

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• By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society. We believed then and now there are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, War, Men

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

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• Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

  H. L. Mencken

  Strong, Fighting, Fate

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.160, Vintage

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