Quotes About Time

Wise men never grow up; indeed, they grow younger, for they lose the appalling worldly wisdom of youth.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

History will be erased in the universal purgatory.

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.

God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath.

What I've lost in years I've gained in wisdom. Bullshit, I haven't learnt one thing in the last 15 years that hasn't just depressed me more.

Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.

The days are long, but the years are short.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Do not desire a long life or an early death