Famous Advance Quotations

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"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."
by Arthur Schopenhauer
"We went back in the spring for the Advance Auto Parts 500, and all the emotions came back,"
by Jimmie Johnson
"Evolution is gaining the psychic zones of the world... life, being and ascent of consciousness, could not continue to advance indefinitely along its line without transforming itself in depth. The being who is the object of his own reflection, in consequence, of that very doubling back upon himself becomes in a flash able to raise himself to a new sphere."
by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
"Error is discipline through which we advance."
by William Ellery Channing
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
by John Dewey
"It was very important for us to send a message to the new Palestinian leadership that if [they intended] to abrogate signed international agreements in an effort to advance their extremist agenda, they should not be surprised if Israel acts to defend its citizens and its interests."
by Mark Regev
"Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance."
by Alexander Pope
"In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark."
by Nicholson Baker
"All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance."
by Edward Gibbon
"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."
by Marcel Proust
"The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before."
by Johann von Goethe
"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."
by G. C. Lichtenberg
"Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people."
by George Herbert Walker Bush
"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."
by Thomas H. Huxley
"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood."
by Kahlil Gibran
"...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned."
by John Holt
"A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization."
by Ayn Rand
"A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts."
by Evan Parker
"Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation."
by Oscar Fingall O---@---Flahertie Wills Wilde
"All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future."
by Gerald R. Ford
"By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour."
by Victor Hugo
"Close scrutiny will show that most 'crisis situations' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are."
by Dr. Maxwell Maltz
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."
by H. L. Mencken
"First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance."
by Juvenal
"Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance."
by Juvenal
"He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others."
by Hindoo Maxim
"He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale."
by Johnson
"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years."
by Thomas Carlyle
"I guess I feel as good as I can feel, I fought my heart out. I had the crowd on my side for the first four matches unbelievably strong. To see how they reacted to him and see how much they wanted a champion like him to advance, it was great."
by James Blake
"IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected."
by H. G. Wells
"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."
by Orville Wright
"If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance."
by W. S. Gilbert
"If you wish in this world to advance Your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it, And blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance."
by William S. Gilbert
"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance."
by Joseph Stalin
"In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies."
by L. Sprague de Camp
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
by Samuel Johnson
"It was a grand trait of the old Roman that with him one and the same word meant both honor and honesty."
by Advance
"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."
by Winston Churchill
"Man's nature is not always to advance; it has its advances and retreats"
by Blaise Pascal
"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort."
by Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
"Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives."
by Norman Vincent Peale
"Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you."
by Madame de Tencin
"No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer."
by George Orwell
"Our well-founded claim, grounded on continuity, has greatly strengthened, during the same period, by the rapid advance of our population toward the territoryits great increase, especially in the valley of the Mississippias well as the greatly increased facility of passing to the territory by more accessible routes, and the far stronger and rapidly-swelling tide of population that has recently commenced flowing into it."
by John C. Calhoun
"People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first."
by John Kenneth Galbraith
"Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies."
by Walter Lippmann
"The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world."
by George W. Bush
"The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance."
by Aeschylus
"The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance."
by Abraham J. Heschel
"The fringed curtains of thine eye advance."
by William Shakespeare
"The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty."
by Lyndon B. Johnson
"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."
by Henry James
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
by Richard Milhous Nixon
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance"
by Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom."
by George W. Bush
"There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self... Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance."
by Vash Young
"Those thoughts are truth which guide us to beneficial interaction with sensible particulars as they occur, whether they copy these in advance or not."
by William James
"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."
by Albert Einstein
"What in fact have I achieved, however much it may seem Bits and pieces trivialities. But here they won't tolerate anything else, or anything more. If I wanted to take one step in advance of the current views and opinions of the day, that would put paid to any power I have. Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society We are society's tools, neither more nor less."
by Henrik Ibsen
"What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete."
by Alfred de Vigny
"Where we have the choice between putting a dollar against those that are going to advance horizontal integration and those that are going to sustain current capability, we'd rather put them against the horizontal integration activity."
by Stephen Cambone
"Worry is interest paid in advance for a debt you many never owe."
by Anonymous
"You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way."
by Will Rogers
"As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities."
by James A. Froude
"No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion."
by Percy Wynham Lewis
"'I am fully in agreement with the bills against vivisection, for the abolition of vivisection can only be seen as an advance in public education'"
by Dr. Josef Drobny
"'It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???'"
by Adela P.
"How pitiful, and what poverty of mind, to have said that the animals are machines deprived of understanding and feeling . . . has Nature arranged all the springs of feeling in this animal to the end that he might not feel? Has he nerves that he may he incapable of suffering? People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines . . . It appears to me, besides, that [such people] can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different Voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of pain, of love, of anger, and of all their affections. It would be very strange that they should express so well what they could not feel. . . . They are endowed with life as we are, because they have the same principles of life, the same feelings, the same ideas, memory, industry—as we."
by Voltaire
"The discovery of chemotherapeutic agents for the treatment of human cancer is widely heralded as a triumph due to the use of animal models… However, there is little, if any, factual evidence that would support these claims… Indeed, while conflicting animal results have often delayed and hampered advances in the war on cancer, they have never produced a single substantial advance in either the prevention or treatment of human cancer."
by Dr Irwin Bross
"The psychological context of dream-contents consists in the web of associations in which the dream is naturally embedded. Theoretically we can never know anything in advance about this web, but in practice it is sometimes possible, granted long enough experience. Even so, careful analysis will never rely too much on technical rules; the danger of deception and suggestion is too great. In the analysis of isolated dreams above all, this kind of knowing in advance and making assumptions on the grounds of practical expectation or general probability is positively wrong. It should therefore be an absolute rule to assume that every dream, and every part of a dream, is unknown at the outset, and to attempt an interpretation only after carefully taking up the context. We can then apply the meaning we have thus discovered to the text of the dream itself and see whether this yields a fluent reading, or rather whether a satisfying meaning emerges."
by Carl Gustav Jung
"The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance."
by Nathan Collins
"I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history."
by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn
"Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed."
by Walt Whitman
"Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different sources: items that have survived from religion, items of empirical knowledge, items of protective skepticism, items culled for comfort from the superficial learning that is supplied. But the point is that common-sense can never teach itself, can never advance beyond its own limits, for as soon as the lack of fundamental learning has been made good, all items become questionable and the whole function of common-sense is destroyed. Common-sense can only exist as a category insofar as it can be distinguished from the spirit of inquiry, from philosophy."
by John Berger
"There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance."
by Vash Young
"A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world."
by Mary McCarthy
"Winner expects to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophesy."
by Source Unknown
"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."
by Yves Saint-Laurent
"I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love."
by Thomas Traherne
"To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach."
by W. Clement Stone
"Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are."
by Maxwell Maltz
"Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods"
by H.L. Mencken
"And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning -- enemies of society, as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!"
by Georges Bernanos
"Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned."
by John Holt
"Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical."
by Thomas Babington Macaulay
"If you are drinking to forget, pay in advance."
by A Pub Wall.
"He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale."
by Samuel Johnson
"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."
by Hermann Broch
"Excessive reservations and paralyzing despondency have not helped the sciences to advance nor are they helping them to advance, but a healthy optimism that cheerfully searches for new ways to understand, as it is convinced that it will be possible to find them."
by Alois Alzheimer
"When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them."
by William Osler
"The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people's minds would be uninhabitable."
by E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
"You can't say that civilization don't advance... for in every war they kill you a new way."
by Will Rogers
"Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization."
by Oscar Wilde
"Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you."
by Virgil
"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself."
by Jane Addams
"The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler."
by E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White
"The advance planning and sense stimuli employed to capture a $10 million cigarette or soap market are nothing compared to the brainwashing and propaganda blitzes used to ensure control of the largest cash market in the world: the Executive Branch of the United States Government."
by Phyllis Schlafly
"You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. War"
by Will Rogers


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