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“[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. But they do me wrong; for experience, rather, daily shows us, on the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

“Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin.”

Ifs Years Looks Seems Together Past Belief Memories Happened Contrary Virgins Our Memories Contrary To Popular Belief

Author:George Orwell

“Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self, of the “I,” with all its peculiar idiosyncrasies, memories, demands, and pursuits. In introspection there is identification and condemnation. In awareness there is no condemnation or identification; therefore, there is no self-improvement. There is a vast difference between the two.”

Two Self Differences Memories Awareness Demand Self Improvement Contrary Improvement Pursuit Peculiar Introspection Identification Condemnation Idiosyncrasies Self Centeredness Centeredness

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.”

Wells May Memories Painful Contrary Painful Thoughts

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)

“The semanticists are exactly wrong in regarding language as an obstruction or series of pitfalls. Language, on the contrary, appears as a great storehouse of universal memory, or it may be said to serve as a net, not imprisoning us but supporting us and aiding us to get at a meaning beyond present meaning through the very fact that it embodies others' experiences.”

May Said Facts Language Memories Universal Series Contrary Pitfalls Obstruction

Book:Ideas Have Consequences

Source: Ideas Have Consequences

“The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean that it has built up a lot of resistance - on the contrary, such a mind is dying to everything that it has known in which there has been conflict, pleasure and pain. Only then is the mind innocent; that means it can love. You cannot love with memory, love is not a matter of remembrance, of time.”