Quotes about Evolution
As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.
- Gloria Steinem
Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again—in a new way.
- Gloria Steinem
Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair—and it's not there.
- Gloria Steinem
You're always the person you were when you were born. You just keep finding new ways to express it.
- Gloria Steinem
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
- Gloria Steinem
Between what is and what could be?
- Gloria Steinem
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances. Man
- James Allen
and on the way to, yet long before he has reached, that supreme perfection, he will have found, working in his mind and life, the Great Law which is absolutely just, and which cannot, therefore, give good for evil, evil for good. Possessed of such knowledge, he will then know, looking back upon his past ignorance and blindness, that his life is, and always was, justly ordered, and that all his past experiences, good and bad, were the equitable outworking of his evolving, yet unevolved self.
- James Allen
As a progressive and evolving being, man is where he is that he may learn that he may grow; and as he learns the spiritual lesson which any circumstance contains for him, it passes away and gives place to other circumstances
- James Allen
Change can be uncomfortable and scary. But I believe change exists to teach us to appreciate and enjoy the right now.
- Gretchen Bleiler
We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.
- Thich Nhat Hanh