Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
- Topic: Change
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More Quotes from John Locke
Freedom is to be free from restraint and violence from others.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.
More on Change
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.
Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.
To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.