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- For the strong magic of conception, mingled with the fumes of memory,
- Giveth me a life in all past time, yea, and addeth substance to the future.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.
GEORGE ELIOT, Silas Marner
Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Thoughts on Art and Life
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can rote volumes.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
Memory is a bad book-keeper.
Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.
Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true. Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me. My computer's memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
ALAN COOPER, The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
- Past dreams of bliss our lives contain,
- And slight the chords that still retain
- A heart estranged to joys again,
- To scenes by memory's silver chain
- Close-linked, and ever yet apart,
- That like the vine, whose tendrils young
- Around some fostering branch have clung,
- Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung
- From one united heart.
BRET HARTE, "The Homestead Barn"
Memory is the greatest traveller.
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