Andrew Denton Quotes

I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

It's the same as Keith Richards. People still ask him the same questions they asked him 30 years ago, even though he's a completely different person. And I'm a completely different person than I was 15 years ago.

Everything changes with time. I am not so experienced enough to analyze what the people love in me.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

I may not understand it or accept it, but the world is changing.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.

We have changed because we have learned.

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

The world is getting better, but not in a straight line.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.