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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"The older generation of scientists often cannot accept the new paradigm."
Thomas Kuhn
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"Knowledge does not keep any better than fish."
Alfred North Whitehead
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"The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Time is understood differently across cultures and epochs."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Time itself is a cultural invention as much as a natural phenomenon."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Interest is the price of time. It reflects the universal human preference for present goods over future goods."
Ludwig von Mises
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"All economic goods are scarce because time is scarce. This is the fundamental economic problem."
Ludwig von Mises
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"In the long run we are all dead."
John Maynard Keynes
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"The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance."
John Maynard Keynes
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"The importance of money flows from its being a link between the present and the future."
John Maynard Keynes
"The past lives in us more than we live in the present."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Time reveals patterns that the moment obscures."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Time is not a river but a labyrinth."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Time is the most precious of all commodities."
Jérémie Bentham
"True generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
"Time is not linear but cyclic within human experience."
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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"Time is the greatest teacher; those who refuse to learn from it are doomed to repeat it."
Cesare Beccaria
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"The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead."
John Maynard Keynes
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"The future is fundamentally uncertain; it cannot be reduced to mathematical probabilities."
John Maynard Keynes
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"Our knowledge of the future is always fundamentally limited."
John Maynard Keynes
J
"Interest rates are a reward for postponing consumption, but also a reflection of uncertainty."
John Maynard Keynes
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"Time is the ultimate scarce resource; no man can create more of it."
Ludwig von Mises
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"Time is the most precious commodity we possess."
Antonio Genovesi
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"Time is the most valuable thing we possess."
Johann Tetens
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"Time flies when you're having fun."
Johann Tetens
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"Time is the measure of all change and becoming."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Time is the dimension in which change occurs."
Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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"Time is the currency we cannot earn back, only spend wisely."
Antonio Genovesi
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"We should make the most of the present moment"
George Berkeley
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"Memory is the treasurer of time."
Jérémie Bentham