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Time.

The most precious resource — and how to use it wisely.

“It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.”

“Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”

“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”

“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.”

Abigail Van Buren

“Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.”

Leonardo da Vinci

“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?”

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”

“A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure.”

“When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That's relativity.”

Albert Einstein

“The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.”

“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”

Saint Augustine

“Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a relativistic society are those with the least to offer.”

Jordan Peterson

“You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.”

“Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.”

“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

“Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.”

“Perspective comes with time.”

“Reading an hour a day is only 4% of your day. But that 4% will put you at the top of your field within 10 years. Find the time.”

Patrick Bet-David

“Our darkest moments help us find the light within ourselves.”

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

“God is best known in not knowing him.”

Saint Augustine

“All great achievements require time.”

“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.”

“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”

“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”

Thomas Jefferson

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Albert Einstein

“Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.”

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”

Charles Spurgeon

“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment.”

“If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.”

Saint Augustine

“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”

Abraham Lincoln

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.”

Abraham Lincoln

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”

“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.”

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”

“Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.”

“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”

Jean Paul Richter

“Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.”

“In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.”

Leonardo da Vinci

“The natural desire of good men is knowledge.”

Leonardo da Vinci

“As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.”

“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”