Inspirational Quote by Michel de Montaigne Download Open image “The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.” — Michel de Montaigne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Love Memories Memory Our memories Please
Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them. — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Memory is a code to who we are, a collection of not just dates and facts but also of epic emotional struggles, epiphanies, transformations. — David Grann Copy Share Image
A memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Memory performs the impossible for man; holds together past and present, gives continuity and dignity to human life. — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share
Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
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
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The height and value of true virtue consists in the facility, utility, and pleasure of its exercise; so far from difficulty, that boys, as… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear… — Michel De Montaigne Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
If people must be talking about me, I would have it to be truthfully and justly. I would willingly return from the next world… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In true friendship, in which I am expert, I give myself to my friend more than I draw him to me. I not only… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image