Change Quotes

We shall best understand the probable course of natural selection by taking the case of a country undergoing some slight physical change, for instance, of climate. The proportional numbers of its inhabitants will almost immediately undergo a change, and some species will probably become extinct.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

The persecution of any minority is inhuman and unnatural. That belief is timeless and beyond change.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.

The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred.

Change the economic base and you will change human beings.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.

At the time of the pralaya (universal destruction) the oceans are to exceed their limits and seek to change, but a saintly man never changes.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.