If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is
memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of
memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The
memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out. - Mansfield Park
View quotes by Jane AustenAttention is the stuff that
memory is made of, and
memory is accumulated genius
View quotes by James Russell LowellThere are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term
memory, decreased short term
memory, and I forget the third.
View quotes by Timothy LearyThe
memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to
memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.
View quotes by Arthur SchopenhauerI don't really see the hurdles. I sense them like a
memoryView quotes by Edwin MosesThe true art of
memory is the art of attention.
View quotes by Samuel JohnsonHunger steals the
memoryView quotes by Louise ErdrichMemory is the thing you forget with.
View quotes by Alexander ChaseEvery man's
memory is his private literature.
View quotes by Aldous HuxleyHappiness is nothing more than good health and a bad
memory.
View quotes by Albert Schweitzer Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short
memory.
View quotes by GalbraithOne must have a good
memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
View quotes by Friedrich NietzscheAn education isn't how much you have committed to
memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
View quotes by Anatole FranceThe creditor hath a better
memory than the debtor
View quotes by James HowellThe
memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
View quotes by Louis ArmstrongA good
memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
View quotes by Clifton FadimanThe proper
memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget
View quotes by John MorleyThere are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to
memoryView quotes by Jean-Antoine Petit-SennA good
memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
View quotes by Cliff FadimanHuman
memory is a marvellous but fallacious instrument.
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