Fernand Braudel Quotes

History is in motion, and those moving with it are so caught up that they cannot always see its broad outlines

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

Mellowing has never done much for me. You need to keep moving.

It's kind of amazing to see that progress happens over time.

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move.

I love to watch times change!

Changes call for innovation, and innovation leads to progress.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

There is no such thing as standing still.

Times do keep changing - thank God.

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.

Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.

I like progress but I hate change.

The standards of the past are not the standards of the future.

Change is not always progress.