Quotes About Evolution

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end up with a skyscraper made of wood.

If men could move out of infancy at half a mile an hour and get up to eighteen thousand miles an hour in one lifetime, well, who was to assume that the walls of the universe were safe from future men?

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

You let everything stand until it's knocked over and then you go over and write your own ruins

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

You can say the universe is a splendidly worked-up system of disinformation calculated to make us believe in evolution and so divert us away from God. Yes, that is exactly what I would do if I were the Lord and could not trust

changes are so frightening.

I do not know if the story repeats itself: I only know that people change little

experience is comparable to fashion; an action that proved successful today will be unworkable and impractical tomorrow. Only principles endure

I am the end product of thousands of years of evolution; therefore, I am better equipped in both mind and body than all the emperors and wise men who preceded me.

Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not, for today I am a new man, with a new life.

So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Life is about becoming more of who you really are....

When you know better...You do better.

Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that — that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.

There is not one experience, no matter how devastating, no matter how tortuous it may appear to have been, there is nothing that's ever wasted. Everything that is happening to you is being drawn into your life as a means to help you evolve into who you were really meant to be here on Earth. It's not the thing that matters, it's what that thing opens within you. — Oprah

The whole point of being alive is to become the person you were intended to be, to grow out of and into yourself again and again

Your life isn't about a big break. It's about taking one significant life-transforming step at a time.

Because this I know for sure: Who you're meant to be evolves from where you are right now. So learning to appreciate your lessons, mistakes, and setbacks as stepping-stones to the future is a clear sign you're moving in the right direction.

Your life isn't about a big break. It's about taking one significant life-transforming step at a time. —Oprah

Mine is I've learned as much as I can learn doing this one thing. Now I need to move forward. And it happens when I've learned as much as I can learn at that thing. And then something else opens itself.

When you know better, you do better." —Maya Angelou