Bob Rae (1948) Canadian politician
Source: The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998), Chapter Five, The Second Question: Charity and Welfare-The Old Debate Is New Again, p. 95
“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.”
No. 93.
The Tatler (1711–1714)
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“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night IV, Line 843.
“523. A fool may throw a stone into a well, which a hundred wise men cannot pull out.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.”
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) American protestant theologian
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Everybody's Political What's What? (ebook, must be borrowed) https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24979564M/Everybody's_political_what's_what (1944), Chapter XXXVII: Creed and Conduct, p. 330 <br class="br">1940s and later <br class="br">Variant: Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. <br class="br">Context: Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Creeds, articles, and institutes of religious faith ossify our brains and make change impossible. As such they are nuisances, and in practice have to be mostly ignored.
Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate
Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 314.
Anthony Watts (1958) American television meteorologist
Just where are those grid killing tornadoes anyway? http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/06/17/just-where-are-those-grid-killing-tornadoes-anyway/, wattsupwiththat.com, June 17, 2009. <br class="br">2009
Martin Lewis Perl (1927–2014) American scientist
in his Nobel Autobiography, edited by [Gösta Ekspong, Nobel Lectures in Physics 1991-1995, World Scientific, 1997, 9810226780, 161]
Qin Gang (1966) politician
Source: "The Global Nature of Science, Technology and Innovation: An interview with Ambassador Qin Gang, China's Ambassador to the U.S." in Science & Diplomacy https://www.sciencediplomacy.org/conversation/2021/global-nature-science-technology-and-innovation-interview-ambassador-qin-gang (17 December 2021)