Progress
We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) U.S. poet.
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) English poet and satirist.
All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish writer.
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have
Woodrow T. Wilson (1856-1924) Twenty-eighth President of the USA.
When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.
Why aren't we making any progress towards a crime-free society? We're not making progress because we are too damn busy making excuses.