Ability Quote by Robert Pinsky

Language is a nice way to remember things.

— Erin McKean

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

— John Locke

But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs…

— Julio Cortazar

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

— Molly Haskell

The immense value of becoming acquainted with a foreign language is that we are thereby led into a new world of tradition and thought…

— Havelock Ellis

We must keep in mind that only a part of memory can be translated into the language-based packets of information people use to tell…

— Daniel J. Siegel

Knowledge is the harvest of attention

— Charles Olson

Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this…

— Meister Eckhart

If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.

— Neil Harbisson

I had a foretaste of another, larger kind of knowledge: one I believe human beings will be able to access in ever larger numbers…

— Eben Alexander

“To gain knowledge, you may simply observe, but to truly understand, you must experience.”

— M.P. Sharma

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in…

— Edgar Allan Poe