Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Pro is to con as progress is to Congress.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on 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.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.