Causes Quote by Leonardo da Vinci

What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History.…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Memory is what makes us young or old.

— Anonymous

An important memory is like a gravitational field--the mind is compelled to return to it again and again. It is like a moon; it…

— Rikki Ducornet

“Memory is an imaginal constellation of past and present that generates a new experience. Memory is not the storing of the past, but the…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. … It…

— Joan D. Chittister

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes…

— Rollo May

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend…

— Primo Levi

“Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.”

— William Gibson

“[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

Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the…

— Honore de Balzac

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of…

— John Locke