And he that will not apply New Remedies, must expect New Evils; for Time is the greatest Innovator.
-Francis Bacon
Tag: Time
Time will reveal everything It is a babbler…
Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler, and speaks even when not asked.
-Euripides
Whether time is long or short and whether…
Whether time is long or short, and whether space is broad or narrow, depends upon the mind. Those whose minds are at leisure can feel one day as a millennium, and those whose thoughts are expansive can perceive a small house to be as spacious as the universe.
-Hung Tzu-ch’eng (1593-1665)
Life can only be understood backwards but it…
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Time the cradle of hope but the grave…
Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other. He that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
-Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832)