Acquaintance Quote by Charles Mackay

“Perhaps the relevant truth- and it's one whose existence was apparent to my wife, and I'm sure to much of the world, long before…

— Joseph O'Neill

“One makes a great error if one believes there are 'ancients.' Only now is antiquity starting to arise. It arises in the eyes and…

— Novalis

“I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages have. They…

— Joseph Conrad

“As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of the life…

— Henry David Thoreau

“... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“the past was a worthless human ability that had evolved for the sole purpose of reminding mortals of their mistakes.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Humans rarely look back to the past, until they have made the same mistake!”

— Lucinda Riley

“True novelty is that which does not grow old, despite the passage of time.”

— Muriel Barbery

“The misfortune of our time is just this, that it has become simply nothing else but 'time', the temporal, which is impatient of hearing…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries”

— Benjamin Franklin

“In other words, time was a kind of palimpsest, traces of the past peeking through the present, only to be written over in the…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.”

— Suzy Kassem