James Freeman Clarke Quotes

We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now. I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.

Change is no threat to culture.

I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invading the pitch, it is good to feel that some things and some people seem to stay just as they were.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

Tradition is the illusion of permanance.

The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone, you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone, you leave it to a torrent of change.

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

I think continuity is a good thing. But change is sometimes good, too.

A lot of things change and a lot of things stay the same, they mostly stay the same.

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

Some things will never change.

Things change, but they stay the same.

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

As it was in the beginning, ... is now, and ever shall be, world without end.

Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.