Home / Topics / Memories Quotes

Memories Quotes

Browse 7719 quotes about Memories.

Memories Quotes

“Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage.”

Science Memories Mass Parts Of Life Baggage

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.”

Mind Firsts Ideas Science Names Understanding Memories Growing Particular Degrees Empty Senses Familiar Cabinets

Book:The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary

Source: The Locke Reader: Selections from the Works of John Locke with a General Introduction and Commentary

“Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.”

Life Has Beens Science Memories Mathematics Quantity Equations Illustration Heredity

Book:The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler

“Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.”