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Memory Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind…
- It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring…
- Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.
- With most men, scarce a link of memory holds yesterday and to-day together.
- The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when…
- In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
- We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought,…
- His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
More Memory Quotes
- The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. — Louis Armstrong
- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
- I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury… — Emilie Autumn
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
- There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu
- Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. — Franklin P. Adams
- For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an… — John Banville
- God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. — James M. Barrie