Progress - Quotes and Proverbs

Let’s move forward, because things have improved and can still get better. Here are some proverbs and quotes about progress.

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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley

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

Albert Einstein

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

John F. Kennedy

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

Gaston Bachelard

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw

The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Indira Gandhi

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 little.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The thinkers of the Enlightenment sought a new understanding of the human condition. The era was a cornucopia of ideas, some of them contradictory, but four themes tie them together: reason, science, humanism, and progress.

Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Things can be both bad and better.

Hans Rosling

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Saint Francis of Assisi

We are, I think, in the right road of improvement, for we are making experiments.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Havelock Ellis

Where there's a will, there's a way.

If you really want something to be done, it can be done.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.

Frank Zappa

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Rabindranath Tagore

You've got to vote, vote, vote, vote. That's it; that's the way we move forward. That's how we make progress for ourselves and for our country.

Michelle Obama

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