#memory

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#defect #depends #grasping #judgment #many

Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#age #area #come #continue #could

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can. ↗

— David Leavitt

#certain degree #contract #degree #experience #i

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#arise #brutes #empirical #far #like

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#associations #dozen #each #end #ever

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#always #arrives #big #buffer #computer

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

#commands #heart #memory #obeys

I would love to have a photographic memory. It would come in handy with the rants I'm given on Scrubs... often on short notice! ↗

— John C. McGinley

#given #handy #i #love #memory

History is information. Memory is part of your identity. ↗

— David Miliband

#identity #information #memory #part #your

I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory. ↗