Memory Quotes

Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The senses collect the surface facts of matter...It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.


Johnson, Samuel
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.


Newman, John Henry
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. -- John Henry Newman