M Quotes
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“Memory is the residue of thought”
Source: Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
“Memory is the scaffolding upon which all mental life is constructed.”
“Memory is the scribe of the soul.”
“Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.”
Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf
“Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.”
“Memory is the single most powerful driving force in how we learn to eat; it shapes all our yearnings.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.”
“Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.”
Source: The Holy State and the Profane State
“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.”
“Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.”
“Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time. As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past. All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)
“memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.”
Source: The House In Paris
“Memory is tricky-memory for certain facts and or details is probably more imaginative than anything, but the important thing is to keep the feeling the story has. I never forget that: the feeling one has of the story is what you must strive to bring forth faithfully.”
Source: The Delicacy and Strength of Lace
“Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.”
“Memory is what makes us young or old.”
“Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing.”
“Memory is your image of perfection.”
“Memory is your museum, your cabinet of curiosities, your 'Wunderkammer.' It will never be full; there is always room for something new and strange and marvelous. It will never need dusting. It will last as long as you do. You can't let the public in to walk around it, but you can take out the exhibits and share them, share what you know. You will never be able to stop collecting.”
Source: The Museum Book: A Guide to Strange and Wonderful Collections
“Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.”
“Memory is, of course, a trickster.”
“Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.”
“Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.”
“Memory isn't the facts, it's just a record you keep to yourself. With the facts, memory is useless.”
“Memory. It worked in such mysterious ways. Lodging certain things in the brain, discarding others. Sometimes protecting us from our worst experiences, sometimes replaying them over and over, sometimes lying to us.”
Source: The Last Trace
“Memory itself is an internal rumour.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.”
“Memory loss is the key to human reproduction. If you remembered what new parenthood was actually like you wouldn’t go around lying to people about how wonderful it is, and you certainly wouldn’t ever do it twice.”
Source: Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
“Memory Makes Magic Happen
“Have you ever been away from someone for a while and when you are reunited after a long absence, they ask about something or someone whom you talked about previously? My friend Teresa Palm is an amazing massage therapist. Months can go by between our appointments, however, without missing a beat, she can start up our conversations exactly where we left off ages ago. Her memory has always impressed me and demonstrated that she is interested enough to remember things which were meaningful to me. She always conveys a sincere interest which makes me feel great.”
Source: The Art of Connection: 8 Ways to Enrich Rapport & Kinship for Positive Impact
“Memory makes the difference. There are facts that everyone knows, but memories, and the feelings they evoke, are unique to individual souls. Memories can be described, but can never truly be shared.”
Source: Set This House in Order
“Memory marks the horizon of our consciousness, imagination its zenith.”
Source: Table-talk
“Memory may be pig-headed and want us to follow its whims along the blips and dips of our time line. ( "All the words he always wanted to tell her.")”
“Memory measured in elemental specks, recognizable when complete, but, as single particles, easily swept away.”
Source: We Have Shadows Too
“Memory must be patchy; what is more alarming is its face-savingness. Something in one shrinks from catching it out - unique to oneself, one's own, one's claim to identity, it implicates one's identity in its fibbing.”
“Memory narrativises itself.”
“Memory near oblivion. Far death”
Source: The Galloping Hour: French Poems
“Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.”
Source: Heretics of Dune
“Memory nourishes the heart, and grief abates.”
Source: Letters of Marcel Proust
“Memory of our good works makes us negligent and leads to arrogance. Do not think of your good deeds, so that God may remember them.”
“Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.”
Source: The Sorrows of an American: A Novel
“Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.”
“Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."”
“Memory performs the impossible for man by the strength of his divine arms; holds together past and present, beholding both, existing in both, abides in the flowing, and gives continuity and dignity to human life.”
“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.”
Source: Fall On Your Knees
“Memory principles, such as the Working Memory Capacity Principle and Long-Term Memory Retrieval, inform transformative teaching strategies by acknowledging the limitations of working memory and promoting techniques like chunking and retrieval practice to enhance long-term retention of information.”
“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 without forgetting what we wanted to do, to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.”
“Memory repression thrives in shame, secrecy, and shock. The shame and degradation experienced during sexual assault is profound, especially for children who have no concept of what is happening to them or why. Sexual abuse is so bizarre and horrible that the frightened child feels compelled to bury the event deep inside his or her mind.”
Source: Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
“Memory requires active engagement with the complexities of the past. It is not an unthinking or passive process, like breathing or (for most people) sleeping. I have found that good memory, like good history, requires disciplined and focused attention, an honest effort to overcome one's perceptual and cognitive biases, and sustained effort.”
Source: Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
“Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.”
“Memory revises me.
Even now a letter
comes from a place
I don’t know, from someone
with my name
and postmarked years ago,
while I await
injunctions from the light
or the dark;
I wait for shapeliness
limned, or dissolution.
Is paradise due or narrowly missed
until another thousand years?
I wait
in a blue hour
and faraway noise of hammering,
and on a page a poem begun, something
about to be dispersed,
something about to come into being.”
Source: The city in which I love you: poems