249 quotes found
“There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency and a vice.”
“To be honest one must be inconsistent.”
“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.”
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
“When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.”
“The consistent thinker ... is either a walking mummy or else if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality a fanatical monomaniac.”
“Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”
“Birth is violent whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.”
“Since changes are going on anyway the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Condi-tions and events are...”
“He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place.”
“To change skins evolve into new cycles I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yes...”
“Today changes must come fast and we must adjust our mental habits so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is p...”
“When you're stuck in a spiral to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.”
“The more things change the more they remain the same.”
“The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same.”
“Change is the constant the signal for rebirth the egg of the phoenix.”
“A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change not destruction which takes place.”
“The old order changeth yielding place to new and God fulfills himself in many ways.”
“The mill wheel turns it turns forever though what is uppermost remains not so.”
“In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.”
