“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”
Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. VII
Following the Equator (1897)
“time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.”
Variant: Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable.
Source: As quoted in LIFE magazine (22 April 1957), p. 152; also in Letters and Papers from Prison (1967), p. 47.
Context: Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty.
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German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906–1945Related quotes
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(180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Theophrastus, 10.
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Rick Warren
(1954) Christian religious leader
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
As quoted in LIFE magazine (22 April 1957), p. 152; also in Letters and Papers from Prison (1967), p. 47
“O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions — Time!”
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
(1628–1687) English statesman and poet
Last recorded words, as quoted in The Encyclopædia Britannica (1910)
“Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life.”
Albert Einstein
(1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
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