This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The weak-minded change their opinions because they are easily influenced by others, and the strong-minded change their opinions because they have complete mastery over their opinions.
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In the heat of [social] movements brains are set stirring with new ideas which live on through quieter times, waiting for another opportunity to ignite into action and change the world around us.
Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.
Change | Perception | Story | World |
Both inner and outer hearing, which cannot be separated, change consciousness to a greater extent than anything else in our eye-orientated age.
Age | Change | Consciousness |
The basic fact today is the tremendous pace of change in the human life.
The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.
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Jessamyn West, fully Mary Jessamyn West
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
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A capacity to change is indispensable. Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast to that which is good.
Capacity | Change | Good | Indispensable |
When circumstances change, I change my view; what do you do?
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The enormous influence of novelty - the way in which it quickens observation, sharpens sensation, and exalts sentiment - is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous.
Change | Enough | Influence | Novelty | Observation | Sentiment | Will | Novelty |
`Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
Change | Controversy | Progress |
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
We resonate with one another’s sorrows because we are inter-connected. Being whole and simultaneously part of a larger whole, we can change the world simply by changing ourselves.
Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
Josh Billings, pen name for Henry Wheeler Shaw, aka Uncle Esek
There are two kinds of fools; those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
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