Quotes to inspire and reflect

Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.

The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future.

Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.

Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child’s toy Slinky.

Time heals nothing—which should make us better able to minister.

Time is a Test of Trouble— / But not a Remedy— / If such it prove, it prove too / There was no Malady—.

Time! the Corrector where our judgments err, / The test of Truth, Love—sole philosopher, / For all beside are sophists.

Time is the only true purgatory.

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment and suffering.

The ruins of Time build mansions in Eternity.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence—neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish—it is an imponderably valuable gift.

Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

Time brings all things to pass.

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

I am money’s medium. It passes through me— taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty.

Men are divided between those who are as thrifty as if they would live forever, and those who are as extravagant as if they were going to die the next day.

A bluff taken seriously is more useful than a serious threat interpreted as a bluff.

A man’s thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

Things thought too long can be no longer thought, / For beauty dies of beauty, worth of worth, / And ancient lineaments are blotted out.

It is so easy for people to have sympathy with suffering. It is so difficult for them to have sympathy with thought.

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.

It belongs to the self-respect ot intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravel- ment.

I know what I’m thinking bout, I think. Nothing. And as much of it as I can.

Thought depends absolutely on the stomach, but in spite of that, those who have the best stomachs are not the best thinkers.

We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion.

Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

The body always ends by being a bore. Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

Man is obviously made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit.

All the mind’s activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought 1 comprehend the world.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

All deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea, while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

You may derive thoughts from others; your way ol thinking, the mould in which your thoughts are cast, must be your own.

Those that think must govern those that toil.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.