Quote of the Day (Alfred North Whitehead, on ‘The Art of Progress’)

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”—English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1929)

Quote of the Day (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, on ‘The Ringing Grooves of Change’)

“Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range,
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.” —English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), “Locksley Hall” (1842)

Quote of the Day (Thomas Carlyle, on Difficulties and Progress)

"Every noble work is at first impossible." — Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Past and Present (1843)

Quote of the Day (George Bernard Shaw, on the Reasonable and the Unreasonable Man)

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”—Anglo-Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

Quote of the Day (Thomas Cahill, on the ‘Dream of Something New’)

“Out of mortal imagination comes a dream of something new, something better, something yet to happen, something—in the future.”―Thomas Cahill, The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels (1998)

Quote of the Day (Winston Churchill, on a ‘Little Mouse of Thought’)

“A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of words and thoughts; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind. Cannons, airplanes they can manufacture in great quantities; but how are they to quell the natural promptings of human nature, which after all these centuries of trial and progress has inherited a whole armory of potent and indestructible knowledge?”—Winston Churchill, in “The Defence of Freedom and Peace (The Lights Are Going Out),” radio broadcast to the United States and London, October 16, 1938