“Time is the wisest counsellor of all.”
Pericles (-494–-429 BC) Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens
“Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all.”
— Plutarch, book Parallel Lives
Parallel Lives, Pericles
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“Time is the wisest counselor of all.”
Pericles (-494–-429 BC) Greek statesman, orator, and general of Athens
As quoted in Until Tomorrow Comes (1979) by Orville E. Kelly, p. 160
“Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.”
Thales (-624–-547 BC) ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician
As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, I, 35
“The wisest time of all times is now. Now you are enlightened. Just now.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (1957) Indian philosopher
Source: The Wisest of All Times is Now! p. 24. (2021)
Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex (1485–1540) English statesman and chief minister to King Henry VIII of England
Letter to Stephen Vaughan.
“To a bad king a worse counsellor.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
A re malvagio, consiglier peggiore.
Canto II, stanza 2 (tr. Max Wickert)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) British literary critic
Notes on a Cellar-Book (1920; Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008) p. 32
“Timely silence, then, is precious, for it is nothing less than the mother of the wisest thoughts.”
Diadochos of Photiki (400–486) Byzantine saint
§ 70
On Spiritual Knowledge and Discrimination (480 AD)
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Jesus, as portrayed in Preface, Difference Between Reader And Spectator
1930s, On the Rocks (1933)
Context: Law is blind without counsel. The counsel men agree with is vain: it is only the echo of their own voices. A million echoes will not help you to rule righteously. But he who does not fear you and shews you the other side is a pearl of the greatest price. Slay me and you go blind to your damnation. The greatest of God's names is Counsellor; and when your Empire is dust and your name a byword among the nations the temples of the living God shall still ring with his praise as Wonderful! Counsellor! the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
“Thou are a better counsellor to others
Than to thyself: I judge by deeds not words.”
Source: Prometheus Bound, lines 335–336 (tr. G. M. Cookson)