"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century."

Progress, Goal, Today

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"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century."

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"The absence of knowledge of the truths about money leads to poverty and financial slavery."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Progress, Growth, Learning, Faith, Success

"If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Progress, Truth, Future, Inspirational, Wisdom

"And the people of Ankh-Morpork are so thirsty for novelty that the whole city is, you might say, hurrying the future along for the sheer joy of watching its progress."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Progress, Future, Happiness, Truth, Wisdom

"Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbour of humanity's great aspirations."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Progress, Respect, Happiness, Power, Truth

"A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Progress, Process, Productivity, Work

"We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Progress, Ignorance, Illiteracy, National Development, Education

"The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Progress, Race

"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Progress, Man, Opinion

"A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Progress, Perseverance, Truth, Life, Inspirational

"The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error."

Voltaire, French Writer

Progress, Error, Man, Ocean

Explore more quotes by Lewis Mumford

"It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless."

Values

"Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century."

Progress

"One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence."

Intelligence

"However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible."

Science

"Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed."

Persistence

"Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities."

Food

"Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act."

People

"A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail."

Courage

"Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development."

Life

"The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture."

Cultural