On change—2

…ten more interesting quotations

Apparently, change is still the only certainty (well, apart from death and taxes, of course).

Change in all things is sweet.

quoted by Aristotle . 384-322 BCE . Greek philosopher, polymath . Nicomachean ethics, III

Change your life today.  Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. 

Simone de Beauvoir . 1908-1986 . French author and philosopher

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. 

Paul Boese . 1923-1976 . American businessman and writer

I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing changed.

George Carlin . 1937-2008 . American comedian and writer

Time does not change us, it just unfolds us.

Max Frisch . 1911-1991 . Swiss playwright, novelist, architect

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Carl Jung . 1875-1961 . Swiss psychiatrist and writer . The integration of the personality

It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.  Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

Niccolò Machiavelli . 1469-1527 .  Florentine political philosopher, historian, musician and poet . The prince, ch 6 .  translated, WK Marriott

War is never anything less than accelerated technological change.

Marshall McLuhan . 1911-1980 . Canadian philosopher of communication theory . Understanding media

A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.

Marcel Proust . 1871-1922 . French novelist, essayist and critic . The Guermantes way . translated, CK Scott Moncrieff

If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?

Gloria Steinem . 1934- . American feminist and author . Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Change proves true on the day it is finished.

traditional, attributed to Fu Xi . C29 BCE . sovereign of China . I Ching

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