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“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.”
Alfred North Whitehead
“Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.”
Samuel Smiles
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
Aldous Huxley
“Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.”
Charles F. Kettering
“Make measurable progress in reasonable time.”
Jim Rohn
“Doubt can only be removed by action.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge”
Henry Miller
“Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.”
Marianne Williamson