"When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die."

Time, Learning, Listening, Questions

10

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die."

Exlpore more Time quotes

"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Measurement, Change

"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Time, Past, Change, Possibility, Hope

"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Bubble, Ocean

"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

Richie Norton, American Author

Time, Regret, Future, Action

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Time, Day, Forget, Tomorrow, Spirit

"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Time, Life, Haste, Housekeeping

"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Time, God, Idea, Invention

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Time, Work, Process, Patience

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Time, Eternity

"The value of time is immeasurable."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Time, Immeasurable, Worth, Life

Explore more quotes by Lillian Smith

"The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making."

Heart

"We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with."

Spiritual

"Rich folks always talk hard times."

Talk

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college."

Education

"Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years."

Society

"Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve."

Faith

"The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome."

Trust

"To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open."

Future

"When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die."

Time