Quotes
Quotes about Time
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth. Robert Kennedy The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness. -Doc Childre.
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now-always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances. -Albert Schweitzer.
The greatest friend of truth is time, her greatest enemy is prejudice, and her constant companion humility. -Charles Colton.
There are truths that are not for all men, nor for all times.
Like the sun, truth is self luminescent. It is reality, self evident, needing no external defense. It is immediately recognized by resonant hearts. It can be hidden for a short time by clouds or by imprisoning others indoors.. but inevitably truth conquers all, as does love. God whose name is Truth whose name is Love is ending the violence in the world now.
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -Winston Churchill.
But thou know'st this, 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.
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.
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few personsnearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty.
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.
Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [Fr., Il est difficile d'estimer quelqu'un comme il veut l'etre.]
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himselfâ ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanityâ before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Vices of the time; vices of the man. [Lat., Vitia temporis; vitia hominis.]
