Advance Quotes

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. (John Dewey)
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. View quote
Edward Gibbon
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. View quote
Henry James
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong
Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them. View quote
Virgil
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
Error is discipline through which we advance. View quote
William Ellery Channing
The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
We should continually be striving to transform every art into a science: in the process, we advance the art. View quote
Donald Knuth
The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. (John Glenn)
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. View quote
Coretta Scott King
A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. View quote
Betty Friedan
When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances fit in with them. View quote
William Osler
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual. View quote
Alexander Fleming
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future. (Gerald Ford)
The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance. View quote
Ruth Gordon
A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half. View quote
Jan Timman
It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance. View quote
L. Neil Smith