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Quotes About Evolution

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.
~ Gordon S. Wood
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
~ James Truslow Adams
All Disruption starts with introspection.
~ Jay Samit
If you have a guru, leave him; if you don't have, get one. In other words, keep changing your gurus! Ocean's wisdom comes from knowing many ships and many fishes, many storms and many waves!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.
~ Henry James Sumner Maine
Strong ideas, loosely held. That's the path to success.
~ John Gruber
Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.
~ Paulo Coelho
In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.
~ Matthew J. Kirby, Icefall
Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
~ Charles Simmons
The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.
~ Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
In that the wisdom of the few becomes available to the many, there is progress in human affairs; without it, the static routine of tradition continues.
~ Joseph Jastrow
When I have listened to my mistakes, I have grown.
~ Hugh Prather
Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.
~ Herbert Spencer
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.
~ Martin Seligman
We can and do control the direction of our own evolution.
~ Jasmuheen
The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.
~ Joshua Foer
I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.
~ Jonas Salk
Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.
~ Larry Niven
Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.
~ Ralph Marston
The only way to learn is by changing your mind.
~ Orson Scott Card
I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.
~ Georg Baselitz
You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.
~ Rick Heinrichs