Nature Of Memory Quotes

Nature never remembers, that's why she's beautiful. — Alberto Caeiro

Compartmentalization is an unconscious psychological defense mechanism employed to avoid cognitive dissonance. — Zack Love

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The nature of the praise and prayer in the Psalms indicates how memory is key to praise and prayer. — John E. Goldingay

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. — Toni Morrison

I believe ... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself. — William Butler Yeats

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence? — Joshua Foer

Something about the memory caused him to tear up, to think again about the unknowable nature of the people we love. — Jess Walter

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract. — Jessamyn West

People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely. — Henry Cantwell Wallace

A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite. — Tacita Dean

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind. — Edward T. Hall

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. — Stendhal

Nature has certain mechanism to record all memories of every life being. — Toba Beta

Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade. — Lionel Shriver

I serve."
"Serve who?"
"Heaven. Or the divine in nature. The memory of my fathers past. My fellow man. Myself. All pieces of the same thing. — Jim Butcher

Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species. — Nigel Hamilton

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment. — Ellen Glasgow

After all, experiencing something is not the same as remembering it. A memory is by its nature a revision. — Jan Ellison

[ ... ] the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems to have died, perhaps is just asleep. — Noam Shpancer