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Elbert Hubbard:The reason men oppose progress is


The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
by Elbert Hubbard


Albert Einstein:Technological progress is like


Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
by Albert Einstein


Samuel Butler:All progress is based upon the


All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
by Samuel Butler


Samuel Butler:All progress is based upon a


All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to live beyond its income.
by Samuel Butler


Confucius:The perfecting of one's self is the


The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
by Confucius


Johann Von Goethe:Progress has not followed a


Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
by Johann Von Goethe


Charles F. Kettering:The world hates change, yet


The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
by Charles F. Kettering


James Russell Lowell:He who is firmly seated in


He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.
by James Russell Lowell


H.L. Mencken:Unquestionably, there is progress.


Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
by H.L. Mencken


Adlai Stevenson:All progress has resulted from


All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
by Adlai Stevenson


Harold Wilson:He who rejects change is the


He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
by Harold Wilson


Gurdjieff:There is no progress whatever.


There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
by Gurdjieff


John Lubbock:Our ambition should be to rule


Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
by John Lubbock


George Bernard Shaw:The reasonable man adapts


The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
by George Bernard Shaw


Ralph Waldo Emerson:All our progress is an


All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
by Ralph Waldo Emerson


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