Quelques exemples:
"Ne vous inquiétez pas d'avancer lentement; inquiétez-vous seulement si vous êtes arrêté." (proverbe)
"The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom." (Sun Tzu)
"La vie, c’est comme une bicyclette, il faut avancer pour ne pas perdre l’équilibre." (Albert Einstein)
"Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood." (Khalil Gibran)
"Je m'avance vers celui qui me contredit." (Michel de Montaigne)
"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all." (Alexis de Tocqueville)
"La vérité recule, mais le savant avance.” (Henri Poincaré)
"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago." (John Adams)
"Ceux qui se sont sagement limités à ce qui leur paraissait possible n'ont jamais avancé d'un seul pas." (Mikhaïl Bakounine)
"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement." (John Stuart Mill)
"Sans destruction pas de construction; sans barrière pas de courant; sans arrêt pas d'avance." (Mao Tsé-Toung)
"Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere." (Thomas Carlyle)
"Croire au destin veut dire que tout ce qui va arriver est décidé à l'avance." (Jostein Gaarder)
"The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships." (H. G. Wells)
"Avant, on avançait dans la mauvaise direction; maintenant, on recule dans la bonne." (Ernest-Antoine Seillière)
"Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true." (Niels Bohr)
"Celui qui se sera étudié lui-même sera bien avancé dans la connaissance des autres." (Denis Diderot)
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." (James Madison)
"Le secret pour avancer est de commencer. Le secret de la mise en route consiste à diviser vos tâches écrasantes complexes en petites tâches gérables et à commencer par la première." (Mark Twain)
"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that we find sects and parties in most branches of science [and politics]; and disputes that are carried on from age to age, without being brought to issue." (Thomas Reid) [à comparer à Confucius (6ème et 5ème siècle avant JC): "Sans langage commun les affaires ne peuvent être conclues." ou à August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767-1845): "L'incompréhension le plus souvent ne vient pas d'un manque d'intelligence mais d'un manque de sens."]
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