Quotes About Adaptation

New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.

Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

What is commonly called a pest is nature's way of bringing back into balance an imbalance that man has created.

Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them.

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

The world is changing. It is no longer a world just for boys and men

If White men were not complaining, it would be an indication we weren't succeeding and making the inroads that we are.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly.

Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.