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 atoms are eternal witnesses to all that has been and ever will be."
Leucippus
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"Time is the most valuable thing."
Anaximander
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"Time reveals the truth that custom conceals."
Xenophanes
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"What mortals call eternal is merely what outlasts their memory."
Xenophanes
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"Time is the greatest and longest established of the poets."
Aristophanes
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"The moon has set, and the Pleiades; it is midnight, and time passes, and I sleep alone."
Sappho
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"In the garden of memory, certain faces never fade, no matter how many seasons pass."
Sappho
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"Time steals youth as thieves steal gold; guard your moments jealously."
Sappho
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"Time is not a prison but the medium through which becoming occurs."
Anaximander
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"The progression of time is the progression of atomic rearrangement through space."
Leucippus
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"Will you, I say, cast away the most precious thing you own—time?"
Euripides
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"Time is the most precious thing of all."
Euripides
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"The future is uncertain; what matters is how we act in the present moment."
Xenophanes
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"Time reveals what was hidden and conceals what was visible."
Xenophanes
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"Every moment contains infinite possibilities for those who perceive them."
Xenophanes
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"Swift time brings all things to pass."
Sophocles
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"Time is a kindly god."
Sophocles
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"Nothing dries sooner than a tear."
Sophocles
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"Time is the most precious thing a man can give, yet we spend it as though it were infinite."
Aristophanes
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"Time will reveal everything to those who look."
Euripides
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"Old age is a disease from which we shall never recover."
Euripides
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"Time is the ultimate judge of all human endeavors."
Euripides
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"Time is the measure of motion, and motion is the substance of time."
Anaximander
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"The wheel turns, and in its turning all things find their place."
Anaximander
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"Time is the king of all men; he has power over all."
Democritus
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"The cosmos was not created in an instant, but evolved through eternal process."
Anaximenes
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"Time is the medium through which change becomes visible to mortal perception."
Anaximenes
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"Time is the teacher of all things"
Empedocles
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"If it came into being, then it was not before."
Parmenides
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"There is no time before being was."
Parmenides