Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

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

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

Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.

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

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.

Everything has changed and nothing has changed.

Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too. Their yearly trick of looking new Is written down in rings of grain. Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

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

The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it' is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction, a call to non-arms.

We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.

He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

How will the world change if we do not question it?

Am I more afraid Of taking a chance and learning I'm somebody I don't know, or of risking new territory, only to find I'm the same old me? There is comfort in the tried and true. Breaking ground might uncover a sinkhole, one impossible to climb out of. And setting sail in uncharted waters might mean capsizing into a sea monster's jaws. Easier to turn my back on these things than to try tjem and fail. And yet, a whisper insists I need to know if they are or aren't integral to me. Status quo is a swamp. And stagnation is slow death.

It is always wiser, where there is a choice, to trust inertia. It is the greatest force in the world.

Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything.

words same as always same as nothing when nothing is the same

Conservatism... offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using all your senses, and you will attacked by the senseless. Speak truth and you will be attacked by the untruthful. Speak about absolutely nothing and absolutely nothing will speak back, but then nothing at all will ever change.