"Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.“


-John Henry Newman

posted in change


Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

Other Quotes You Might Like

Discover more inspiring quotes from our collection

"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise."

-John Henry Newman

wisdomView Quote
"From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery."

-John Henry Newman

religionView Quote
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

-John Henry Newman

lifeView Quote
"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning."

-John Henry Newman

fearView Quote
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

-John Henry Newman

changeView Quote
"It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience."

-John Henry Newman

bestView Quote

More Quotes About change

Explore other inspiring quotes in this category

"You do have to change things as warfare changes."

-Charles Schumer

changeView Quote
"My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important."

-Tom Hanks

changeView Quote
"What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later."

-Jonathan Sacks

changeView Quote
"Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it."

-Jonathan Sacks

changeView Quote
"Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon."

-Nick Clegg

changeView Quote
"Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives."

-Jonathan Sacks

changeView Quote