A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Edward de beno (b.1933) British author.
Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English Physician, author.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goest by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams (1914-1983) American playwright.
Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German Philosopher.
But each day brings its petty dust Our soon chok’d souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) English Poet, critic.
Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge.
Cicero.
The memory is a treasurer to whom we must give funds, if we would draw the assistance we need.
Rowe.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in their judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Fuller.
It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all time; in the widespreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found stamped on the laws of nature by the indelible seal of the Almighty’s will.
Cooper.
That memory is the book of judgment, from some opium experiences of mine, I can believe. I have, indeed, seen the same thing asserted in modern books, and accompanied by a remark which I am convinced is true, namely; that the dread book of account, which the Scriptures speak of is, in fact, the mind itself of each individual. Of this, at least, I feel assured that there is no such thing as forgetting, possible to the mind; a thousand accidents may and will interpose a veil between our present consciousness and the secret inscriptions on the mind; accidents of the same sort will also rend away this veil; but whether veiled or unveiled, the inscription remains forever; just as the stars seem to withdraw before the common light of day; whereas, in fact, we all know that it is the light which is drawn over them as a veil, and that they are waiting to be revealed, when the obscuring daylight shall have withdrawn.
De Quincey.
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
Tryon Edwards.
We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
Johnson.
No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.
G.Macdonald.
Joy’s recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow’s memory is sorrow still.
Every one complains of his memory; nobody of his judgment.
Rochfoucauld.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Johnson.
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Tupper.
O, memory, thou bitter sweet both a joy and a scourge.
Mad. De.Stael.
If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious in mature age; if childhood has sometimes the memory of words, old age has that of things, which impress themselves according to the clearness of the conception of the thought which we wish to retain.
Bonstetten.
Memory, the daughter of attention, is the teeming mother of knowledge.
Tupper.
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Fuller.
Edward de beno (b.1933) British author.
Memory, the priestess, kills the present and offers its heart to the shrine of the dead past.
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English Physician, author.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goest by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams (1914-1983) American playwright.
Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German Philosopher.
But each day brings its petty dust Our soon chok’d souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) English Poet, critic.
Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge.
Cicero.
The memory is a treasurer to whom we must give funds, if we would draw the assistance we need.
Rowe.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in their judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Fuller.
It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all time; in the widespreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found stamped on the laws of nature by the indelible seal of the Almighty’s will.
Cooper.
That memory is the book of judgment, from some opium experiences of mine, I can believe. I have, indeed, seen the same thing asserted in modern books, and accompanied by a remark which I am convinced is true, namely; that the dread book of account, which the Scriptures speak of is, in fact, the mind itself of each individual. Of this, at least, I feel assured that there is no such thing as forgetting, possible to the mind; a thousand accidents may and will interpose a veil between our present consciousness and the secret inscriptions on the mind; accidents of the same sort will also rend away this veil; but whether veiled or unveiled, the inscription remains forever; just as the stars seem to withdraw before the common light of day; whereas, in fact, we all know that it is the light which is drawn over them as a veil, and that they are waiting to be revealed, when the obscuring daylight shall have withdrawn.
De Quincey.
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
Tryon Edwards.
We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.
Johnson.
No one is likely to remember what is entirely uninteresting to him.
G.Macdonald.
Joy’s recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow’s memory is sorrow still.
Every one complains of his memory; nobody of his judgment.
Rochfoucauld.
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Johnson.
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Tupper.
O, memory, thou bitter sweet both a joy and a scourge.
Mad. De.Stael.
If the memory is more flexible in childhood, it is more tenacious in mature age; if childhood has sometimes the memory of words, old age has that of things, which impress themselves according to the clearness of the conception of the thought which we wish to retain.
Bonstetten.
Memory, the daughter of attention, is the teeming mother of knowledge.
Tupper.
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Fuller.
No comments:
Post a Comment