Existence Quote by Giacomo Casanova

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.

— Anonymous

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 residue of thought

— Daniel T. Willingham

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

— Rajneesh

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.

— Robert Smithson

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

— Alain de Botton

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

— Oliver Sacks

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

— William Faulkner

Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.

— Ally Condie

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