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.
Change Quotes
The moment of change is the only poem.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
It seems necessary to completely shed the old skin before the new, brighter, stronger, more beautiful one can emerge… I never thought I’d be getting a life lesson from a snake!
Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn – and change.
I haven’t got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
People don’t resist change. They resist being changed!
Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.
