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A great part of progress consists in the desire to make progress.”
Seneca
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Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
progress
will
To progress, it is not enough to want to act, one must first know in which direction to act.”
Gustave Le Bon
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Hier et demain. Pensées brèves
progress
The real democratic progress is not to lower the level of the elite toward that of the crowd, but to raise that of the crowd toward the elite.”
Gustave Le Bon
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Hier et demain. Pensées brèves
Democracy
progress
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”
Oscar Wilde
-
A Woman of No Importance
progress
World history is the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
freedom
History
progress
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world : the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw
progress
world
A thousand things advance, nine hundred and ninety-eight fall back, this is progress.”
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Journal intime
progress
The law of progress holds that everything now must be better than what was there before. Don’t you see if you want something better, and better, and better, you lose the good. The good is no longer even being measured.”
Hannah Arendt
good
progress
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities—perhaps the only one — in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there.”
Karl Popper
History
mistake
progress
science
to learn
Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.”
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
knowledge
Man
progress
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”
Albert Camus
progress
to learn
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
George Bernard Shaw
change
progress
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.”
Charles Baudelaire
poetry
progress
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.”
Charles Darwin
progress
science
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.”
Albert Einstein
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