Ellen Gilchrist Quotes

Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.

He will be an extraordinary person, that pure American, who will be standing in my place five thousand years from today. He will have what no other human being has had in just the same richness, the inheritance of all ages, all races, all cultures…. a true superman, standing on the shoulders of those from all nations and races of the earth.

In football, I'm not so old. At 52, maybe I have 20 years in front of me to coach. But I feel myself as... you might say an 'old fox.' Nothing scares me; nothing worries me too much. It looks like nothing new can happen for me.

The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.

Live long, my friend, be wise and strong. But do not from any man his song.

I want to talk about the nature of human beings or how we're evolving as a race.

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

Who is old enough to have learned from experience?

The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination.

The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.

There is something which unites magic and applied science (technology) while separating them from the "wisdom" of earlier ages. For the wise men of old, the cardinal problem of human life was how to conform the soul to objective reality, and the solution was wisdom, self-discipline , and virtue. For the modern, the cardinal problem is how to conform reality to the wishes of man, and the solution is a technique.

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

I've been around for a very long time, I've been around since God had baby cheeks.

In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.

But if you'll prosper, mark what I advise, Whom age, and long experience render wise.

I believe the human race is ready to make a quantum leap forward spiritually and morally.

The entire human race faced a singularity when one small group discovered, ooh, technology. We can live a different way. Eventually, that spelled the death of the old way of life.

The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization.

The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.

I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.