time quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"Only time can heal what reason cannot."
23
"While we are postponing, life speeds by."
24
"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
192
"The notions of matter and of space are inseparable. We derive the notion of space from matter and form. But we have no adequate conception either of matter or space. Matter in its ultimate resolution is as unintelligible as what men call mind, spirit, or by whatever other name they may express the power which makes itself known by acts."
342
"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"
536
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
537
"Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of time and is forgotten through the lapse of time."
591
"Life is too short, time too valuable, to spend it on what is useless."
709
"Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee."
983
"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."
1085
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
5
"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the center of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest."
82
"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents."
96
"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour."
97
"When was the last time you sought knowledge simply for the pursuit of truth? What did you gain from this effort? Think of the people you know. Do any of them strike you as embodying the ideals of Curiositá? How are their lives enriched by this?"
119
"..it is essential that you begin with one skill that you can master, and that serves as a foundation for acquiring others. You must avoid at all cost the idea that you can manage learning several skills at a time. You need to develop your powers of concentration, and understand that trying to multi-task will be the death of the process."
136
"The way I looked at it, I was born in hell and every time I won a fight, that was one step out of it."
145
"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
183
"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."
195
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
201
"There's not a single subject you can't understand with perseverance and the occasional stretch of hard work. Resolve yourself to not giving up. Make plans for how you will learn. Be forgiving of yourself if you need to take a lot of time and mark your progress as you go along."
225
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done."
241
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
242
"Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a ‘toy’ you’re definitely onto something."
256
"If you’re waiting for encouragement from others, you’re doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it’s probably too late."
257
"The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it’s pointless."
274
"The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (I’m not referring to narrow AI) is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast—it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five-year time frame. 10 years at most."
280
"Doctors estimate that seventy to eighty percent of their business is non-health-related. People aren't sick, they're self-dramatizing. Sometimes the hardest part of a medical job is keeping a straight face. As Jerry Seinfeld observed of his twenty years of dating: 'That's a lot of acting fascinated.'"
315
"There appears to be a conscience in mankind which severely punishes the man who does not somehow and at some time, at whatever cost to his pride, cease to defend and assert himself, and instead confess himself fallible and human."
353
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
371
"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
377
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
400
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."
411
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
418
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
515
"Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion."
555
"I believe in intuitions and inspirations… I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am."
611
"Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time."
669
"Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time."
729
"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever."
764
"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."
770
"Cost is the enemy of the poor man, so the poor try to save money. Time is the enemy of the rich man, so the rich try to save time."
801
"Think of all of the amazing things you could have accomplished by now if you weren’t brutally lazy. Imagine all of the time you wasted, every opportunity you let pass by, all the good advice you arrogantly ignored."
824
"Freedom will only come when you no longer trade your time for money."
836
"Money is always moving. If you get in the right place at the right time, then you’re going to get some!"
840
"But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so clearly that there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep, that I feel greatly astonished; and in amazement I almost persuade myself that I am now dreaming."
934
"Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once."
939
"Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end."
967
"Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality."
981
"All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay."
994
"There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character."
1014
"To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity."
1075
"A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time."
1087
"No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born."
1097
"You and everyone you know are going to be dead soon. And in the short amount of time between here and there, you have a limited amount of fucks to give. Very few, in fact. And if you go around giving a fuck about everything and everyone without conscious thought or choice—well, then you’re going to get fucked."
1153
"Because here’s the thing that’s wrong with all of the 'How to Be Happy' shit that’s been shared eight million times on Facebook in the past few years—here’s what nobody realizes about all of this crap: The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience."
1167
"People get addicted to feeling offended all the time because it gives them a high; being self-righteous and morally superior feels good."
1168
"All the time you’re saying to yourself, ‘I could do that, but I won’t’, — which is just another way of saying that you can’t."
1196