Owen Feltham Quotes

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

It is impossible to design a constitution that is so perfect that no one has to be good.

There are two sides to reconciliation; the law aspect and the moral values. Unless there is improvement for both, changes will not come by easily

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement

There is one thing that is only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

For those of us on this planet who have never done wrong and are always right and are just down right 100% perfect all the time, life can be hard.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes.

It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.

Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes.

Human-nature will not change.

O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.

Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.

Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change.

They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

All but God is changing day by day.