Faculty Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

— Joseph Pulitzer

Memory is the library of the mind

— Francis Fauvel-Gourand

Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The mind is like a parachute. In order to function, it first has to open.

— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

— Ben Jonson

“What does it remember? Itself, death as memory. An immense memory in which one dies. First to forget. To remember only where one remembers…

— Maurice Blanchot

A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.

— Varlam Shalamov

The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Memory is the residue of thought

— Daniel T. Willingham

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Memory is the 'filling cabinet' of the brain wherein is stored all thought impulses, all conscious experiences, and all sensations which reach the brain…

— Napoleon Hill

“The first is working memory, or what we usually call “short-term memory”—the category of memory that includes anything we are actively thinking about right…

— David DiSalvo