Quotes About Time

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.

Pleasure has its time; so too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age attend to thy salvation.

All new news is old news happening to new people

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.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

The world is ancient, but it has not lost its newness.

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

You know the wisdom is reflected in the knowledge when it's manifested; If not fed in due time, the mind is anorexic.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Life's too short to sit around and wait.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

A moment's thinking is an hour in words.

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Time flows away like the water in the river.

True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.

Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?

I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.