Time Quotes

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

20900 quotes

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"Time flows differently for those who think."
Michel Foucault
"Time is the space in which man develops."
Friedrich Engels
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"Time is that wherein there is a difference between earlier and later."
Jeremy Bentham
"Use your time for the things that truly matter."
John Stuart Mill
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"One cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side."
Lord Palmerston
"Time is the space in which man develops his potential and consciousness."
Friedrich Engels
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"The grand instructor, Time."
Edmund Burke
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"The factory bells ring out whenever it is time for work, and ring out again when the day's work is done."
Karl Marx
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"Every moment of time is a tragedy if not improved upon."
Karl Marx
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"Memory is not the recovery of what was, but the production of what is useful in the present."
Michel Foucault
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"The present moment is not the culmination of progress but a contingent intersection of forces that might have been otherwise."
Michel Foucault
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"There is nothing in this world that comes to those who wait but time."
William Gladstone
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"The art of life is to know the true worth of every day."
Benjamin Disraeli
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"Time is the great physician."
Benjamin Disraeli
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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die from the moment it is born."
Edmund Burke
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"The grand instructor, Time, teaches all things."
Edmund Burke
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"The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is the business of everybody."
Jeremy Bentham
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"Time is the measure of all things, and patience the measure of time."
Jeremy Bentham
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"There is a time for all things."
Queen Victoria
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"Time is precious and fleeting."
Queen Victoria
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"Time determines all outcomes."
Queen Victoria
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"Time waits for no one."
Queen Victoria
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"The word 'experience' is like the stern of a ship, it is useful only when looking backward."
Prince Metternich
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"Time is the judge of all things; history will vindicate me."
Prince Metternich
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"I have learned that time, once spent, can never be reclaimed."
Queen Victoria
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"There are great advantages in having a long life, if we improve our time properly."
Lord Palmerston
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"The spirit of the age is the witness of its times."
William Gladstone
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"Time is the ultimate arbiter of all human endeavors."
William Gladstone
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"One must act with the weapons which the time furnishes."
Prince Metternich
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"The only real political weapon is time."
Prince Metternich