Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

I think the way the world has evolved, it's maybe caught up to me. It makes more sense and it makes it click on a larger scale.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

Were civilization itself to be estimated by some of its results, it would seem perhaps better for what we call the barbarous part of the world to remain unchanged.

It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

If the theatre has taught me anything, it's that when things change in the body, in the body politic, in the body of the world, in the body of the earth, in the body of the person, there's change. You never go back.

Take a rest and the world catches up with you. Lesson in life--keep moving.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

Making a company is a great way to improve the world while improving yourself.

We know that inevitably the millennials will get old and tired again, and then there will be the bilennials or trilennials, or whatever the next generation is, and we're all going to end up on our lawn shaking our fists in a bathrobe yelling at the moon.

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.

The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too.

A complex society is not necessarily more advanced than a simple one; it has just adapted to conditions in a more complicated way.

It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman,--from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakespeare,--to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation, the summit of science, art, and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always accelerated march.

We've had to overcome a lot in America to become a nation of progress. We still have a lot of progress to be made.

A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.

If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.

Being creative is at the heart of being human and of all cultural progress.

If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.

There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.