Facts Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Facts Fertile Inspirational Memories Memory Sometimes
Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Memory loss is the key to human reproduction. If you remembered what new parenthood was actually like you wouldn’t go around lying to people… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I wonder if memory is true, and I know that it cannot be, but that one lives by memory nevertheless and not by truth. — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought. — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life. — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Truth be told from compulsive liars with a history/Everything must change 2nd chances are a mystery — C-DASH Copy Share Image
We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter… — Patricia Heaton Copy Share Image