Full Idea
Both in thought and in feeling, to realize the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Gist of Idea
A sense of timelessness is essential to wisdom
Source
Bertrand Russell (Our Knowledge of the External World [1914], 6)
Book Reference
Russell,Bertrand: 'Our Knowledge of the External World' [Routledge 1993], p.171
A Reaction
A very rationalist and un-Heraclitean view of wisdom. This picture may give wisdom a bad name, if wise people are (at a minimum) at least expected to give good advice about real life.