"The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little."

Lerner, Max | Age and Aging | 3 bookmarks

"So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist."

Eliot, T. S. | Evil | 4 bookmarks

"Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through."

Unknown, Source | Change | 24 bookmarks

"Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them."

Commager, Henry S. | Change | 19 bookmarks

"Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

Frost, Robert | Truth | 3 bookmarks

"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea."

Rohn, Jim | Ideas | 2 bookmarks

"Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language."

Lee, Harper | Example | 2 bookmarks

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston | Fanatics and Fanaticism | 18 bookmarks

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

Whitehead, Alfred North | Progress | 4 bookmarks

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

Baldwin, James | Change | 13 bookmarks