Quotes About Evolution

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

You have not realized how I have developed. I was a schoolboy when you knew me. I am a man now. I have new passions new thoughts new ideas. I am different but you must not like me less. I am changed but you must always be my friend.

I should be sorry to be on the same level as an age like this.

Discúlpeme, no le había reconocido: he cambiado mucho.

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern.  One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly. 

If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

Olvidar un hecho, es modificar el pasado.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grandperes ont toujours tort.

If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.

La humanidad se toma a sí misma demasiado en serio. Es el pecado original del mundo. Si el hombre de las cavernas hubiera sabido reír, la historia habría sido diferente.

A grapefruit is ionly a lemon that saw an oppurtunity and took advantage of it.

Lo que tengo ante mí es mi pasado. He de conseguir mirarlo con otros ojos, hacer que el mundo lo mire con otros ojos, hacer que Dios lo mire con otros ojos. Eso no lo puedo conseguir soslayándolo, ni menospreciándolo, ni alabándolo, ni negándolo. Únicamente se puede hacer aceptándolo plenamente como una parte inevitable de la evolución de mi vida y mi carácter: inclinando la cabeza a todo lo que he sufrido.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. 

No one cares about distant relatives nowadays. They went out of fashion years ago.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.

All things change; nothing perishes.

My soul would sing of metamorphoses. But since, o gods, you were the source of these bodies becoming other bodies, breathe your breath into my book of changes: may the song I sing be seamless as its way weaves from the world's beginning to our day.

what we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow

My purpose is to tell of bodies that have been changed into shapes of different kinds.