Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a knife and fork?

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Speak softly, and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.

Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution read more

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral
with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and
dissolution.

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, read more

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. read more

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.

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.