We often give painkillers the credit that ought to be given to the passage of time, the belief that they would kill the pain, or the water that accompanied them.
Stealing someone’s money is not nearly as bad as wasting their time.
Life would not seem short if we valued time as much as we value money.
Many millions of people have lost their lives while trying to save a few minutes.
Being in a hurry does not slow down time.
We would rarely waste time if it were earned.
You cannot continue to hate someone without repeatedly wasting, on them, some of your precious time and mental energy.
Solving some problems requires less than half the energy or time it took to complain about them.
Instead of days like Valentine’s Day, we ought to have days such as the day on which we would commemorate those ancestors of ours from whose deaths we have learned, for example, that something is not safe for us to eat.
We ought to read mainly, not to know more, but to remind ourselves that we do not know much.
Ignorance often makes a complicated thing seem simple, or vice versa.
A single person cannot know even a billionth of what is known, which is not even a trillionth of what there is to know.
There is more to knowing than just knowing.
Some things are made funny to some people by their ignorance.
We need not know the how and the why to profit from knowing the that.
Ignorance has its own advantages.
Being told that you have not changed is not always a compliment.
Unfortunately, most people need to know a lot of what they do not know to know how little they know.
It is unfortunate that it is possible to 'know' something that is not true.
Not knowing how to get what you want is better than knowing how to get what you do not want.