Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Interpretation
Understanding that time is less important than our thoughts and feelings leads to true wisdom.
This quote by Bertrand Russell emphasizes that while time is a tangible aspect of our lives, it is not the primary concern when it comes to gaining wisdom. Instead, what truly matters is our thoughts and emotions, and learning to prioritize them over the mere passage of time allows us to cultivate a deeper understanding of life and ourselves.
In practice
In a graduation speech to emphasize the value of personal growth over just time spent in education.
St. Paul introduced an entirely novel view of marriage, that it existed primarily to prevent the sin of fornication. It is just as if one were to maintain that the sole reason for baking bread is to prevent people from stealing cake.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
Of these austerer virtues the love of truth is the chief, and in mathematics, more than elsewhere, the love of truth may find encouragement for waning faith. Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind; and this purpose should be kept always in view throughout the teaching and learning of mathematics.
At all times, except when a monarch could enforce his will, war has been facilitated by the fact that vigorous males, confident of victory, enjoyed it, while their females admired them for their prowess.
Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.
See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.
If each day falls _x000D_ inside each night, _x000D_ there exists a well _x000D_ where clarity is imprisoned. _x000D_ _x000D_ We need to sit on the rim _x000D_ of the well of darkness _x000D_ and fish for fallen light _x000D_ with patience.
One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.
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