Quote of Oscar Wilde - Discontent is the first step in...
Biography - Oscar Wilde:
Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet.
Born: 1854 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Born: 1854 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes for: progress
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 real democratic progress is not to lower the level of the elite toward that of the crowd, but to raise that of the crowd toward the elite.
Don’t wait for Plato’s Republic! Rather, be content if one tiny thing makes some progress, and reflect on the fact that what results from this tiny thing is no tiny thing at all!
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