Quotes on Time

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy.

There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.

The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Time is generally the best doctor.

We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.

With thee conversing I forget all time.

Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.

For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.

Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?

There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.

Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it and spend it rather than invest it.