62 quotes found
“The greatest book is one written by your pen, but not exactly from your mind.”
“I'm never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.”
“Progress means advancement in the path of upliftment in the path of enlightenment in the path of humanitarian glory.”
“Peculiar I say, how so often the smallest, most seemingly insignificant details later unveil their faces as vital means for progression.”
“Mistakes are great teachers. They are stern, confident and fierce inredirecting you from what you should not do; to what you should do.”
“Growing up doesn't mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur.”
“Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.”
“Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.”
“Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.”
“Weve now become the spectators of our own mutation. We may not die human anymore. But what makes us human?”
“Given as much law as that man will be able to do anything and go anywhere, an the only trace of pessimism left in the human prospect today is a faint flavour that one was born so soon.”
“Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly Muslim societies for racist reasons. But if you cant distinguish that sort of blind bigotry from a...”
“One of the difficulties in raising public concern over the very severe threats of global warming is that 40 percent of the US population does not see why it is a problem, since Christ is returning ...”
“Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment”
“Without risks my friends there is no progress, no advancement either in science or technology.”
“Extremism stifles true progression in all fields of human advancement; it is a detriment to everything but war, tribalism and the personal power of Nietzschean entities, striving only for the narci...”
“Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, w...”
“Does the fact that I can no longer remember my own phone number indicate my growing feebleness? No, on the contrary, it unleashes the mind from the petty tyranny of tending to the trivial and allow...”
“Being sceptical about technology is like deciding whether or not you should breath.”
“By now, with all our modern technology, there should be no poverty left on earth.”
