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
"Knowledge does not keep any better than fish."Alfred North Whitehead
"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
"Interest is the price of time. It reflects the universal human preference for present goods over future goods."Ludwig von Mises
"All economic goods are scarce because time is scarce. This is the fundamental economic problem."Ludwig von Mises
"In the long run we are all dead."John Maynard Keynes
"The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance."John Maynard Keynes
"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
"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
"Time is the greatest teacher; those who refuse to learn from it are doomed to repeat it."Cesare Beccaria
"The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead."John Maynard Keynes
"The future is fundamentally uncertain; it cannot be reduced to mathematical probabilities."John Maynard Keynes
"Our knowledge of the future is always fundamentally limited."John Maynard Keynes
"Interest rates are a reward for postponing consumption, but also a reflection of uncertainty."John Maynard Keynes
"Time is the ultimate scarce resource; no man can create more of it."Ludwig von Mises
"Time is the most precious commodity we possess."Antonio Genovesi
"Time is the most valuable thing we possess."Johann Tetens
"Time flies when you're having fun."Johann Tetens
"Time is the measure of all change and becoming."Julien Offray de La Mettrie
"Time is the dimension in which change occurs."Julien Offray de La Mettrie
"Time is the currency we cannot earn back, only spend wisely."Antonio Genovesi
"We should make the most of the present moment"George Berkeley
"Memory is the treasurer of time."Jérémie Bentham