“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes”
-Wilde
“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes” -Wilde
it is personalities, not principles, that move the age."
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."
—JH Newman
—JH Newman
Luke Burgis • Tweet
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“Only that which can change can continue.”
James Carse • Finite and Infinite Games Quotes by James P. Carse
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
— Oscar Wilde
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epigram."
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Morgan Housel • Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life
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.quote .psychology
On the one hand, Octavia Butler has this to say:
“The only lasting truth is Change.”
On the other hand, Bill Bernbach would counter as such:
“A communicator must be concerned with unchanging man, with his obsessive drive to survive, to be admired, to succeed, to love, to take care of his own.”
And you know what, they’re both right!
When we think abo
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