"If I understand Change, I shall make..." - Quote by Confucius
If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life
More by Confucius
More on Change
“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.”
“There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world.”
“Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one.”
More on Understanding
“When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.”
“It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.”
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”