Quotes about Memory
Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).
— Richard Baxter
This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of memory, not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Every time you try to block a thought out of your mind, you drive it deeper into your memory. By resisting it, you actually reinforce it.
— Rick Warren
There is an extraordinary power in storytelling that stirs the imagination and makes an indelible impression on the mind.
— Brennan Manning
Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.
— Samuel Johnson
Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
— John Calvin
I listened, motionless and still And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
— William Wordsworth
That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
— William Wordsworth
She died, and left to me This heath, this calm and quiet scene, The memory of what has been, And never more will be.
— William Wordsworth
I listen'd, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
— William Wordsworth
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind;
— William Wordsworth
For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.
— Davis Bunn