To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
Change Quotes
And the king wanted an inscription good for a thousand years and after that to the end of the world?” – “Yes, precisely so.” – “Something so true and awful that no matter what happened it would stand?” – “Yes, exactly that.” – “Something no matter who spit on it or laughed at it there […]
“Change” is a blank check – and as dangerous as any other blank check. There is no reason to be automatically for or against anything as vague and sweeping as change. Everything depends on the specific merits or demerits of particular changes. But the ease with which so many people embrace undefined “change” is scary. […]
Most new things are not good and die an early death; but those, which push themselves forward, and by slow degree force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasonable prejudice.
Change almost always represents improvement of the human condition. Constancy almost always represents stagnation. In any event, change is certain. There’s no point in complaining about it. Natural history teaches that survival in a changing world does not depend on physical strength or on high intelligence. Survival depends on the ability to change.
Men’s minds are given to change in hate and friendship.
Let a man proclaim a new principle. Public sentiment will surely be on the other side.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it… This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience.
The moment of change is the only poem.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
