Change Quotes

Nothing stays the same. These quotes explore transformation, growth, and the courage to start over.

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"Each generation must reinterpret the past in light of its own present circumstances."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Culture evolves through the dialogue between tradition and innovation."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Change is the only constant in human affairs."
Comte, Auguste
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"The greatest revolution is the revolution of ideas."
Comte, Auguste
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"Progress is not an accident but a necessity."
Spencer, Herbert
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"True creation requires destruction of the old."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Progress requires the courage to abandon the familiar."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Man must overcome his limited perspective to grow."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"All genuine progress comes from openness to change."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The mind that cannot change cannot grow."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Human nature is not fixed but develops through historical processes."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Human development proceeds through thesis, antithesis, and synthesis."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"We grow through confrontation with the unfamiliar and strange."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Change is the only constant in human existence."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Tradition is the enemy of progress."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Destroy everything that stands in the way of progress."
Comte, Auguste
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"Without continuity there can be no true progress."
Comte, Auguste
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"Change is inevitable; progress is intentional."
Comte, Auguste
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"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
James, William
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"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions."
James, William
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"Growth itself is the only moral purpose."
Dewey, John
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"Every experience is a moving force. Its value can be assessed only on the ground of what it moves toward and into."
Dewey, John
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"We live not in a static but in a dynamic universe."
Dewey, John
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"We are not living in static conditions, but in a world of change."
Dewey, John
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"Conflict is the gadfly of thought, stirs us to appraise and reappraise our assumptions."
Dewey, John
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"Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Progress from lower to higher forms is progress in heterogeneity."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Every individual is either growing or decaying; either advancing or going backward."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Progress means a continual increase in the heterogeneity of the universe."
Spencer, Herbert
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"Change is the only constant in the human experience."
Feuerbach, Ludwig