Seneca the Younger Quotes

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Truth is the daughter of time.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

I like to open people's eyes.

Light itself is a revelation.

I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention you eventually wrest some of their secrets from them, making them utter what they would most like to keep to themselves.

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.

You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

Truth is child of Time.

Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

Light is the symbol of truth.

I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.