Quotes about change
166 quotes from 131 people
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859National Character of Americans—first impressions (1831) Oeuvres complètes, vol. VIII, p. 233.
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948A New Earth (2005)
Pierre Trudeau1919–2000Approaches to Politics (1970)Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
John Updike1932–2009The New Yorker (30 July 1990)
Alan Watts1915–1973The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951)- Alan Watts1915–1973The Wisdom of Insecurity (1951), p. 32
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945), p. 19There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.
Edith Wharton1862–1937A Backward Glance (1934), “A First Word”
