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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"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life."
Correia, Fabrice
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"There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. They are yesterday and tomorrow."
Correia, Fabrice
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"The future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow."
Correia, Fabrice
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"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Correia, Fabrice
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"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift."
Correia, Fabrice
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"The present moment is the only place where we can act."
Priest, Graham
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"Time is the medium in which we are sculpted."
Priest, Graham
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"The future is not written; it is whispered by the present."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Time reveals what intention conceals."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Objects persist through time in ways that demand philosophical explanation."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"The persistence of objects through change is a profound phenomenon."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Objects persist, change, and interact in ways that reward philosophical understanding."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Objects persist through time by maintaining their essential properties and relations."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Time is the currency we spend most carelessly, yet it is our most precious resource."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Time moves at the same pace for all, yet we experience it differently."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Time flies when you're having fun."
Smith, Barry
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"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
Smith, Barry
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"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."
Smith, Barry
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"Time does not heal all wounds; our response to them does."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Time is the only resource we cannot create more of."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Time is the most limited resource we have."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Memory seems to teach us that the past is real."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"Time is the most precious resource we have."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"Every moment is a fresh beginning."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"The meaning of words evolves with the understanding of minds."
Montague, Richard
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"Identity through time is a puzzle we've failed to solve for millennia."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Objects endure through change, but we cannot say how or why."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"The ship of Theseus sails on, but we've learned nothing from its journey."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Time flows, yet physics describes it as a static block—which picture is real?"
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"The debate between presentism and eternalism mirrors the mind-body problem."
Schaffer, Jonathan