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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"Time is the ultimate teacher for those patient enough to listen."
Baltasar Gracián
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"Every moment wasted is a small death."
Baltasar Gracián
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"Time is the canvas upon which eternity paints."
Giordano Bruno
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"Every moment contains eternity."
Giordano Bruno
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"Time is the stage upon which eternity performs."
Giordano Bruno
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"Time is the sculptor of both art and artist."
Raphael Sanzio
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"What appears as disaster in one's lifetime may appear as progress in history's view."
Niccolò Copernicus
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"Time is the most precious capital that man has."
Michel de Montaigne
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"I respect the past and I believe in the future; therefore I do not acknowledge the present."
Michel de Montaigne
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"Words confined to memory perish with their keepers; words printed endure."
Johannes Gutenberg
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"The craft of printing is the craft of making the ephemeral permanent."
Johannes Gutenberg
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"Time sees all things done, and beauty fades before the ravages of years."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."
Desiderius Erasmus
"Time is the most precious currency, for it alone cannot be earned or recovered."
Thomas More
"Time stolen from living is never returned, though we often realize it too late."
Thomas More
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"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our lives."
Giordano Bruno
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"Time is the stage for all human drama."
Giordano Bruno
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"Time reveals what flattery conceals."
Baltasar Gracián
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"Time spent in contemplation of beauty is time invested in the soul's development."
Raphael Sanzio
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"Time is the canvas upon which we paint our understanding."
Niccolò Copernicus
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"Men live as if they were going to live forever."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"Youth is a time to learn by doing."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"The greatest luxury is time."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"The printed page outlives the spoken word by centuries."
Johannes Gutenberg
"Time squandered cannot be recovered, only regretted."
Thomas More
"Time reveals what effort conceals."
Thomas More
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"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them."
Michel de Montaigne
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"Nature has set the term of man's life so narrow that if he studies how to live well, what leisure remains for studying how to die?"
Michel de Montaigne
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"Time is but the measure of change; without change, there is no time."
Giordano Bruno
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"In the presence of great art, time dissolves into eternity."
Raphael Sanzio