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| Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it can never forgive the preaching of a new gosp (Frederic Harrison) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Experience teaches that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements, in the most ordinary occupations, are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and by slow gradations. Men would resist changes, so long as even a bare support could be ensured by an adherence to ancient courses, and perhaps even longer. (Alexander Hamilton) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking. (Isaac Asimov) | [▲] | [▼] |
| What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. (Johann Von Goethe) | [▲] | [▼] |
| All change is not growth; all movementis not forward. (Ellen Glasgow) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. (Mahatma Gandhi) | [▲] | [▼] |
| They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true. (Robert Frost) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Inventions reached their limit long ago, and I see no hope for further development. (Julius Frontinus) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. (Frisch. Max) | [▲] | [▼] |
| None of our men are "experts." We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the "expert" state of mind a great number of things become impossible. (Henry Ford) | [▲] | [▼] |
| All is change; all yields its place and goes. (Euripedes) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. (Albert Einstein) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. (Elizabeth Clark Dunn) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The work of the world is done on hate. All work done well is well done only when persons hate work done shoddily. Justice can exist only when injustice is hated, laws only when lawlessness is hated, and education only when ignorance is hated. Every improvement this world has ever known was brought about because someone hated intolerable conditions. (Jane Dunlop) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Everything that can be invented has been invented. (Charles H. Duell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I change, and so do women too; (Anonymous) | [▲] | [▼] |
| In a progressive country change is constant; ... change ... is inevitable. (Benjamin Disraeli) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant. (Benjamin Disraeli) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion.... The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust. (Charles Dickens) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. (John Dewey) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Never swap horses crossing a stream. (American Proverb) | [▲] | [▼] |
| History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.... Truly the imago state of Man seems to be terribly distant, but every moult is a step gained. (Charles Darwin) | [▲] | [▼] |
| I change my opinions often, but not my way of thinking. (Mason Cooley) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation! (Mason Cooley) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Change often makes accepted customs into crimes. (Mason Cooley) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better. (Mason Cooley) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining. (Mason Cooley) | [▲] | [▼] |
| They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. (Confucius) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Religions change; Beer and Wine remain. (Hervey Allen) | [▲] | [▼] |