"As new discoveries are made, new truths..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.
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“If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.”
“I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”
“When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.”
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“People who say "it is impossible", should not interrupt those who are trying to make it possible.”
“If you are too attached to your own thinking and how everything is done now, then nothing will change for the better.”
“We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.”
More on Change
“You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.”
“Education is the way to move mountains, to build bridges, to change the world. Education is the path to the future. I believe that education is indeed freedom.”
“Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.”