Memory Quotes

Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to enhance a human, and the next generation is going to have to deal with that issue. Should we be trying to enhance humans rather than trying to educate them and so on?

~ Robert Winston

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

~ Tariq Ramadan

When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.

~ Duffy

Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.

~ Tony Buzan

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

~ T. E. Lawrence

Learning certain things purely through memory is related to the developmental forces that are present between the sixth or seventh year and the fourteenth year of life. This quality of human nature is what mathematical instruction should be based on.

~ Rudolf Steiner

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

~ George Herbert

My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.

~ Mark E. Smith

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

~ Heston Blumenthal

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

~ Jerry Saltz

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

~ William Gibson

Time and memory are true artists they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

~ John Dewey

I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

~ Octavio Paz

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

~ Kurt Cobain

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

~ Paul Nurse

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

~ Elie Wiesel

My best vacation memory is getting barreled at the beach in Hawaii.

~ Troy Polamalu

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

~ Abraham Lincoln

A liar should have a good memory.

~ Quintilian

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

~ Franklin P. Jones

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

~ Lord Acton

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

~ Malcolm X

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

~ Sarah Churchwell

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

~ Jean-Henri Fabre

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

~ David Miliband

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

~ Marcel Proust

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

~ W. G. Sebald

To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.

~ W. G. Sebald

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

~ Paula Poundstone

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story.

~ Rory Maclean

Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

~ Deepak Chopra

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

~ John Hersey

A balanced diet and physical activity are vital to academic performance. A healthy diet has a direct link to increased cognitive function and memory skills, decreased absenteeism from school, and improved mood. These advantages can help students stay focused and complete their coursework.

~ Matt Cartwright

I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.

~ James Rothman

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.

~ William Peter Blatty