Quotes About Evolution

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

Life is very interesting, if you make mistakes.

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

One of the advantages of defeat in life - maybe the main advantage - is that it provides an excuse for change. Defeat... invariably leads to new adventures.

Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead.

People fail forward to success.

I have called the principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved by the term of Natural Selection.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

"The tradition of the new." Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done. ... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Growth is not concerned with itself.