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Quotes for: time


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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”
Leonardo da Vinci
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères
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Time is a great master; it regulates things well.”
Pierre Corneille - Sertorius
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
Francis Bacon - Novum organum
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

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There are moments in life when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence immeasurably increased.”
Charles Baudelaire
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Nor is it right to say there are three times: past, present and future. Perhaps it would be more correct to say: there are three times: a present of things past, a present of things present, a present of things future.”
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
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Meet the time as it seeks us.”
William Shakespeare
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Time reveals the truth.”
Seneca
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Let us see to it that all time belongs to us. This, however, cannot be unless first of all our own selves begin to belong to us.”
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
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All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.”
Blaise Pascal - Pensées
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You could not step twice into the same river.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus
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You could not step twice into the same river.

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He who would make serious use of his life must always act as though he had a long time to live and must schedule his time as though he were about to die.”
Émile Maximilien Paul Littré
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Time, that moving image of an immovable eternity.”
Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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Patience and time do more than strength or passion.”
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables
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Sadness flies away on the wings of time.”
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables
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It takes a long time to become young.”
Pablo Picasso
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.”
Augustine of Hippo - Confessions
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There are no secrets that time does not reveal.”
Jean Racine - Britannicus
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It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
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Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.”
Albert Camus
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Hours were made for man, not man for hours.”
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods
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The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.”
Marcel Proust
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Love is space and time measured by the heart.”
Marcel Proust
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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.”
Bertrand Russell
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Everything comes in time to those who can wait.”
François Rabelais
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Time is the notion of 'before and after'.”
Erwin Schrödinger
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In time of war the laws are silent.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.”
Henry David Thoreau
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