John Knowles Quotes

Everything changes but change.

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

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

Everything changes but change itself.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

Change alone is unchanging.

Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

The more change, the more it's the same thing.

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.

I have to change to stay the same.

Everything has changed and nothing is changed.

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

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

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

We want traditional change—not transformational change.

Things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay

No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.

Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.

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