It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. . . it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.
The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress. It's coexistence or no existence.
We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.
In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress.
What is the thing that matters most to making progress right now?
The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.
If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.
I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.
I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen
When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.
Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.
Expositions are the timekeepers of progress.
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.
Nothing in our lifetimes has been more heartening than when people of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe broke the grip of communism. We have aided their progress and I am proud of it.
Let the progress of the meal be slow, for dinner is the last business of the day; and let the guests conduct themselves like travelers due to reach their destination together.
Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.