Time Quotes

We all get the same 24 hours. These quotes explore what we do with them and why it matters.

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"When the child's work is interrupted, so too is his development."
Maria Montessori
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"Time itself is colonized; the linear narrative of progress is itself a colonial imposition."
Homi Bhabha
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"Time is not a prison but a canvas for creation."
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"The present moment is the only time we truly possess."
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"Time is the essence of all growth and development."
John Dewey
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"Time is the dimension of self-externality"
Friedrich Hegel
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"The future is always implicit in the present"
Friedrich Hegel
"Time is the most valuable resource we possess."
John Amos Comenius
"Time wasted can never be recovered; use it wisely."
John Amos Comenius
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"Every moment contains infinite richness if we attend to it properly"
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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"Nothing is worth more than this day."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
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"Time itself is the concept that moves."
Friedrich Hegel
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"The present is the moment where past and future meet."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Memory preserves what is essential from the past."
Friedrich Hegel
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"In the development of human potential, time is our most precious and irreplaceable resource."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"Every moment of life presents an opportunity for growth if we are attentive and receptive."
Johann Pestalozzi
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"The present determines the future because we are always living at the moment of transition."
John Dewey
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"The present is a moving boundary between an absent past and an absent future."
John Dewey
"Time is the canvas upon which the artist of life paints their masterpiece."
John Amos Comenius
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"Time is the stage of development."
Friedrich Hegel
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"Time's passage teaches us to value each moment with greater intentionality."
Friedrich Schleiermacher
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"We cannot enter the future by simply leaving the past behind; we must consciously transcend it."
Paulo Freire
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"All things are only intermediate; all things are fleeting."
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our lives."
John Amos Comenius
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"The present is the point at which past and future meet in a moment of decision."
John Dewey
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"Time is not a river flowing past us; it is constitutive of our being."
John Dewey
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"The present supplies all we can ever know, and knowledge of it gives us all the power to change the future."
John Dewey
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"To him a thousand years are as a single day."
Friedrich Hegel