"Time does not change us. It just unfold us."?

Question

What does that quote mean?

Answer 1

It says that people are the same basic person their whole lives, it's just that they manifest themselves differently based on experience.  

It's partly true.  Most people I've known my whole life are exactly the same person I originally met.  The exceptions are people that have suffered some significant emotional event.  People who have been shot at, or endured a particularly nasty divorce, lost a child, that kind of thing.

Answer 2

Time does not change us for we are always basically the same. Time unfolds our insides out over time. It unfolds our emotions unfolds our personality more, unfolds our layers so we know more of who we are...

Answer 3

I would have to say that it is saying that over time we do not change but merely learn from our mistakes. In a way it is like the process of a flower. It changes its looks as it grows but only to open to something beautiful in the end...(sorry to use such a female explanation!)

Answer 4

We are who we are, from birth to death. We seem to change as time goes by, but we don't. What happens is that more of ourself is revealed as time goes by. For example, a movie is a movie, it doesn't change. As it is played, different things happen but it is still the same movie. - this is my interpretation of the quote, it's not necessarily what I believe in.