Memory Quotes

That is my major preoccupation -- memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order ... The continuous thread of revelation.

It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, "No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Memory: We retain: percent of what we read; percent of what we hear; percent of what we see • percent of what we hear and see; percent of what we say; percent of what we say and do.

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of recognition, for old memories and old connection.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe -- though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

A very great memory often forgetteth how much time is lost by repeating things of no use.

Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the "mind's eye.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.