Quotes About Time

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.

The rich invest in time, the poor invest in money.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.

Years teach us more than books.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now!

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

The trouble is you think you have time.

Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.

Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.

age has its own glory, beauty, and wisdom that belong to it.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.