How Things Have Changed

History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins

Well-behaved women seldom make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte

History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius

All is change; all yields its place and goes. - Euripides

If you think you have it tough, read history books. - Bill Maher

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

You have to look at history as an evolution of society. - Jean Chretien

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard

History would be a wonderful thing - if it were only true. - Leo Tolstoy

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change. - Confucius

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. - James A. Baldwin

A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass. - Lakota Sioux Proverb

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. - Flannery O'Connor

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you. - Alan Alda

It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who cannot change. - Confucius

In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history. - Donald Trump

Stay the course, light a star, change the world where'er you are. - Richard Le Gallienne

If you don't like what is being said, then change the conversation. - Don Draper

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. - Wayne Dyer

Don't let the world change your smile, let your smile change the world. - Unknown

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future. - Bernard Meltzer

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. - Kurt Vonnegut

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. - Maya Angelou

I can't change the direction of the wind but I can adjust my sails to reach my destination. - James Dean

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking. - Rick Steves

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader (realist) adjusts the sails. - John C Maxwell

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves. - Zainab Salbi

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin

How many ideas have there been in the history of the human race that were unthinkable ten years before they appeared? - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. - Unknown

I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over. - Drew Brees

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better. - J K Rowling

I know of no other man in our time, or indeed in recent history, who so convincingly demonstrated the power of the spirit over material things. - Stafford Cripps

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness. - Lewis B Smedes

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. - Bertrand Russell

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. - Stephen Hawking