Quote 2048
Themes
Quotes about Change — 17 Timeless Lines
17 quotes about change, arranged the way they appear in Quote 2048: from the lightest line on the 2 tile to the crown quote on the 2048 tile, and on to 131072 in the app.
All quotes come from public-domain works or traditional proverbs; attributions were checked against their sources.
Standing water rots
— Proverb
Nothing stays the same
— Traditional
Yesterday's self isn't today's
— Traditional
Hearts flip like palms
— Proverb
You cannot step into the same river twice
— Heraclitus
Original · Greek
ποταμῷ δὶς τῷ αὐτῷ οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης
The one who reads the times is wise
— Records of the Three Kingdoms
Original · Classical Chinese
識時務者在乎俊傑
The soft overcomes the hard
— Laozi
Original · Classical Chinese
柔弱勝剛強
Fear stagnation, not change
— Traditional
Renew yourself daily, and daily again
— The Great Learning
Original · Classical Chinese
苟日新，日日新，又日新
That which flows never ceases
— Confucius
Original · Classical Chinese
逝者如斯夫
Nothing endures but change
— Heraclitus
Original · Ancient Greek
πάντα ῥεῖ
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The universe is change; life is opinion
— Marcus Aurelius
Everything changes, nothing perishes
— Ovid
Original · Latin
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
At the limit, change; change endures
— I Ching
Original · Classical Chinese
窮則變，變則通，通則久
A snake unable to shed its skin dies
— Nietzsche
Original · German
Die Schlange, welche sich nicht häuten kann, geht zu Grunde.
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present
— Lincoln
Returning is the motion of the Way
— Laozi
Original · Classical Chinese
反者道之動
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