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/stˈɛpɪŋ stoʊn/ Listen

Stepping stone

noun

A stone in a marsh or shallow water that can be stepped on in crossing.

Any means of advancement.

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"Stepping stone" Quotes from Famous Books

... sound better and more desirable to say that we possess a "soul"—that this life is but a "stepping stone to a higher ...

— Tyranny of God • Joseph Lewis

... words are the words of a mere poseur—of a man who twists the truth to fit his desires—of a man who deals in the ideas that seem to him most profitable—of a man who cares not how poor, how innocent, is the body he uses as a stepping stone for his clambering greed and ambition. Oh, I know you—I have watched you—I have read you. You are a mere self-seeker! You are a demagogue! You are a liar! And, on top of that, you ...

— Counsel for the Defense • Leroy Scott

... whatever period of time I stay here, I am one with this beautiful and strange life. I respond naturally to all this serenity and joy, this precision of power over inanimate things; this flooded being and the dawning sense that through the stepping stone of Mars, I approach yet higher beatitudes of living. At least in Mars the sordid taint of suffering, of ignominious physical torture and privation, which spoiled ...

— The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars • L. P. Gratacap

... its type, and that primitive was the Arabian. Scientists have theorized, men have written, and boys have imagined in print, as to some other than the Arabian from which to create a type of horse, and yet through all ages we find that Arabian has been the one stepping stone for each advanced nation upon which blood to build its ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 • Various

Words linked to "Stepping stone" : agency, way, stone, rock, means