Quotes About Memory

Warum wird uns, was schön war, im Rückblick dadurch brüchig, daß es häßliche Wahrheiten verbarg? Manchmal hält die Erinnerung dem Glück schon dann die Treue nicht, wenn das Ende schmerzlich war. Weil Glück nur stimmt, wenn es ewig hält? Weil schmerzlich nur enden kann, was schmerzlich gewesen ist, unbewußt und unerkannt?

You may kill an artist or a thinker, but you cannot acquire his art or his thought.

Memory does not prolong the existence of the past; it is merely one way in which the past has effects.

Todo lo que constituye una persona es una serie de experiencias unidas por la memoria y por ciertas similitudes que llamamos hábito.

Ideas are merely points that memory selects in the flow of thought

The youth who is capable of becoming a philosopher will be distinguished among his fellows as just and gentle, fond of learning, possessed of a good memory and a naturally harmonious mind.

We have acquaintance in sensation with the data of the outer senses, and in introspection with the data of what may be called the inner sense--thoughts, feelings, desires, etc.; we have acquaintance in memory with things which have been data either of the outer senses or of the inner sense. Further, it is probable, though not certain, that we have acquaintance with Self, as that which is aware of things or has desires towards things.

But memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will...

And still it was gone. Seeing it again could not be living it again. You can always rediscover an old path and wander over it, but the best you can do then is to say, Ah, yes, I know this turning! -- or remind yourself that, while you remember that unforgettable valley, the valley no longer remembers you.

How is it possible to bring order out of memory?

Names are keys that open corridors no longer fresh in the mind, but nonetheless familiar in the heart.

I could sit in a cabin overcrowded with petrol tanks and set my course for North America, but the knowledge of my hands on the controls would be Tom's knowledge. His words of caution and words of guidance, spoken so long ago, so many times, on bright mornings over the veldt or over a forest, or with a far mountain visible at the tip of our wing, would be spoken again, if I asked.

Mabel put on the boiled potatos, unmashed, the stewed tomatos, some inferior dried beef, and some bread that plainly said, 'Darling, I am growing old'.

c'mon now, honey, don't be mad at me. I don't mean to lie, I just remember big.

Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.

Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination.

As an actor you should be able to store and recollect your experiences and work on them as an actor as and when required.

We are dangerously devaluing knowledge and learning by no longer having a requirement to remember anything at all.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

The list of plane reservations I keep on my phone - it's very, very, very long.

The first painting I remember selling was 'Panthera.' I made it while I was in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the museum actually purchased it directly from me.

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.