Our Memory Quotes

87 quotes by 78 authors

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings. — Ivan KlÃma
The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no… — Jonathan Carroll
An idea is our visual reaction to something seen - in real life, in our memory, in our imagination, in our dreams. — Anna Held
A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against… — Alfred Binet
Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense… — Steven Johnson
The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we… — R C Sproul
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a… — Marcel Proust
Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory. — John Calvin
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce. — Susan Sontag
We only really remember things for five years. After that, what we remember, what's actually etched in our brain is our memory of the thing,… — Laura Dave
Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical. — Harold Klemp
Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing. — Luis Bunuel
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in… — Diane Ackerman
We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our… — Abbey Lincoln
Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story. — Daniel Kahneman
Satan will try to use our memory of any previous guilt to lure us back...We must be ever vigilant to avoid his enticements — Richard G. Scott
What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away… — John Ralston Saul
Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory,… — Eudora Welty
Through using our memory to its fullest we can unlock the vast reservoir of human potential that isn't currently being used. — Tony Buzan

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