Memory Quotes

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Time is the metre, memory the only plot. — Derek Walcott
Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you is aware of… — Khalil Gibran
With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is… — George Eliot
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a… — Gaston Bachelard
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language. — Henry David Thoreau
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. — William Blackstone
It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace… — Mark Twain
The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A man must have his dreams - memory dreams of the past and eager dreams of the future. I never want to stop reaching for… — Maurice Chevalier
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol
A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In education it isn't how much you have committed to memory or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you… — William Feather
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor. — James Howell
It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more… — Martha Graham
The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory. — William James
Memory. My poison, my food. — Eduardo Galeano
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. They appear so while they are passing; they… — Robert Southey
In 1970 I felt so lonely that I could not give; now I feel so joyful that giving seems easy. I hope that the day… — Henri Nouwen
Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you… — Andy Warhol

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