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A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it. -- Rumer Godden
Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom. -- Joshua Foer
I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out. -- Richard MacDonald
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio. -- Jamais Cascio
Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories. -- Ariana Grande
When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind's collective memory. -- Joshua Foer
Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker -- Bram Stoker
There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory -- Leo Tolstoy
Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life. -- Tove Ditlevsen
Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory. -- Dejan Stojanovic
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures -- Samuel Johnson
The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like. -- William Fleming
Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination. -- Nita Leland
Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings. -- Daniel Schacter
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy -- Alexandre Dumas
The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour. -- George Santayana
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. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
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. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz

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