Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
Progress, this great heresy of decay.
“The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.”
In combating racism we do not make progress if we combat the people themselves. We have to combat the causes of racism.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex.
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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.
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.