Top 1200 Human Progress Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.

The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.

All important progress made by the human race has its roots in daydreaming.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature.

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

As more intelligent computer assistance comes into being, it will amplify human progress.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

Just for being a religion at all you're as complicit as the rest in the retardation of the human intellectual progress.

Knowledge humanely applied makes human progress possible.

Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.

Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?

One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.

It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress.

These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion as if this religion were not the work of God but of man, or some kind of philosophical discovery susceptible of perfection by human efforts.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led to democracy, human rights, and the protection of the environment. Humanists make no apologies for this. Humanists twist no biblical doctrine to justify such actions.

All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.

Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.

There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for it. If, in the name of progress, we want to destroy everything beautiful in our world, and contaminate the air we breathe, and the water we drink, then we are in trouble.

health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

Even though chess isn't the toughest thing that computers will tackle for centuries, it stood as a handy symbol for human intelligence. No matter what human-like feat computers perform in the future, the Deep Blue match demands an indelible dot on all timelines of AI progress.

While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress.

I have always believed that technology drives human civilization's endeavor and progress.

Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

I think generationally, as human progress does its thing, we are constantly impressed by the upcoming generation.

As the years progress one increasingly realises the importance of friendship and human solidarity. And if a 90-year-old may offer some unsolicited advice on this occasion, it would be that you, irrespective of your age, should place human solidarity, the concern for the other, at the centre of the values by which you live.

There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

The brain is conceded to be the master organ of the body, the regulator of life, the source of human progress.

Human progress is not an uninterrupted march forward. It is a slow and devious movement with haltings and twistings. The pathway of man ascends and descends, wanders off into mazes. At times the trail seems to lose itself in the wilderness of human passion and folly. But inch by inch it goes forward with halting steps.

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

How can you help the human race progress?

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

China, as a major nation of the world, as one of five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, and as a member of the U.N. Council on Human Rights, should be contributing to peace for humankind and progress toward human rights.

The reports on human progress are beginning to come in, and some are a little discouraging.

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

Civilization may progress, human nature will remain the same throughout all ages.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

All the progress we have made in philosophy ... is the result of that methodical skepticism which is the element of human freedom.

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why - unlike scientific progress - is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was torturously secured by complex argument comes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance.