Change Quotes

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most […]

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Look at people; recognize them, accept them as they are, without wanting to change them.

Change is good. You go first. (“Dilbert”)

It appears that my worst fears have been realized: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

What was that popping sound? – A paradigm shifting without a clutch. (“Dilbert”)

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

People hate change, and for good reason. Change makes us stupider, relatively speaking. Change adds new information to the universe; information that we don’t know. Our knowledge – as a percentage of all the things that can be known – goes down a tick every time something changes. And frankly, if we’re talking about a […]

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.