Quotes About Time

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned.

Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and fatal, that there never would be a return, another time.

Don't get so busy that you don't have time to meditate. Take the time.... Christ may be nearer than we have knowledge. 'I am in your midst, but you do not see me.'

I am in terror of the infinity before me, having come through the one behind bringing no knowledge I can take on.

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

There is no new knowledge, all is ancient and infinite

I've got no problems with my age. I rejoice in the knowledge I have accrued and savor the greatest moments, because I know how fast it goes.

This is an awesome time to be a knowledge seeker, no better time, but it's also the best time in history to be a complete idiot.

I'm old and my knowledge is strictly horizontal.

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

To live simply to die is by no means amusing, but to live with the knowledge that you will die before your time, that's really is idiotic

Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be rediscovered ages later.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

One forms provisional theories and waits for time or fuller knowledge to explode them. A bad habit, Mr. Ferguson, but human nature is weak. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

Our knowledge of physics only takes us back so far. Before this instant of cosmic time, all the laws of physics or chemistry are as evanescent as rings of smoke.

That will change over time the entire flow of information and the entire quality of knowledge in the country and it will change the way people will try to play games in the legislative process.

Knowledge keeps no better than fish.

We won't know for a few years.

The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.