Memory Quote by Jonathan Swift Download Open image “Observation is an old man's memory.” — Jonathan Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memory Observation
A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“[Memory]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details… — John Daniel Copy Share Image
“If memory remains sound and the thinking mind retains its vigor, an old intelligence may have extraordinary breadth and depth of understanding.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes. — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
“Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Memory has a way of distorting the past, of making certain events seem larger and more significant in retrospect than they ever could have… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“He said, he knew no reason why those who entertain opinions prejudicial to the public should be obliged to change, or should not be… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
“Maybe there is something when it all ends. Maybe there is memory, memory of the person you loved, when you lived. Maybe this is… — Kate Ellison Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. — Tobias Wolff 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
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
My first Olympics memory was watching Haile Gebrselassie in Sydney 2000. His sprint finish to defend his title really moved me. — Mo Farah Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad. — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
