Quotes About Change

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

For men may come and men may go,But I go on forever.

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:The firefly wakens: waken thou with me.

I know that age to age succeeds,Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds,A dust of systems and of creeds.

And ah for a man to arise in me,That the man I am may cease to be!

Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.

Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

The art of progress is to reserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

A science that hesitates to forget its founders is lost.

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.

Change' is the description of the adventures of eternal objects in the evolving universe of actual things.

The mountain endures. But when after ages it has worn away, it has gone. If a replica arises, it is yet a new mountain. A colour is eternal. It haunts time like a spirit. It comes and it goes. But where it comes, it is the same colour. It neither survives nor does it live.

Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.

Life is an offensive directed against the repetitious mechanism of the universe.

The world is not merely physical, nor is it merely mental. Nor is it merely one with many subordinate phases. Nor is it merely a complete fact, in its essence static with the illusion of change. Wherever a vicious dualism appears, it is by reason of mistaking an abstraction for a final concrete fact.

the major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur

In some measure or other, progress is always a transcendence of what is obvious.

It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur :—like unto an arrow in the hand of a child.

Man can work only as nature does, that is by changing the form of matter.