Art Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

— Alexandre Dumas

Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them.

— Rebecca McClanahan

Memory performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms; holds together past and present, beholding both, existing in both, abides…

— Mark Van Doren

Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life.

— Mark Van Doren

Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.

— Gerald Fischbach

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 is the mother of all wisdom.

— Aeschylus

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

— Aristotle

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

— Hilary Mantel

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 a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent…

— Elie Wiesel

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively