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If you ask too many questions, you will find no answers, only more questions.

—Omaha Proverb

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A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

—Homer

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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

—David Reisman

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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

—Albert Einstein

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Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

—Unknown

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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

—Unknown

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

—Unknown

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Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

—Samuel Butler

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I was to learn later that in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

—Russell Baker

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The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.

—Ogden Nash

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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.

—George Bernard Shaw

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The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.

—Barbara Hall

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Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.

—Stuart Stevens

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To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

—Moliere

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