Quotes about Progress

“New roads; new ruts.”

“All progress is experimental.”

“Nothing recedes like progress.”

“Progress is the stride of God.”

“All progress means war with society.”

“The walking of Man is falling forwards.”

“Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?”

“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.”

“I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.”

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

“When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward.”

“The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.”

“I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.”

“This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.”

“Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”

“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another.”

“Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.”

“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.”

“Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.”

“The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.”

“A lot of what appears to be progress is just so much technological rococo.”

“The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.”

“Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.”

“The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.”

“Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”

“Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.”

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”

“When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.”

“If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.”

“Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.”