“Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.”
Source: Einstein's Dreams
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Alan Lightman18
Physicist, science writer, essayist, novelist 1948Related quotes
“The right thing at the wrong time is never the right thing.”
Patti Callahan Henry American writer
Source: Between The Tides
“I see the right, and I approve it too,
Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.”
Samuel Garth (1661–1719) British writer
Translation of Ovid, Metamorphoses, vii. 20 (translated by Tate and Stonestreet, edited by Garth), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue" [veggio ’l meglio, et al peggior m’appiglio], Petrarch, Sonnet ccxxv. canzone xxi. To Laura in Life.
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
The Chapel of the Hermits, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Being Late http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21366/Being_Late <br class="br">From the poems written in English
“I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.”
Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange
Source: A Clockwork Orange
Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher
