Mother Angelica Quotes

If you will give the matter a moment's thought, you'll see that memory is the highest faculty of the human mind.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.

The brain is wider than the sky.

All experience is memory, and so everything you write about is from memory-unless you're writing about typing.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

The best recording is the one you bring with you in your mind.

What's more valuable - intelligence or consciousness?

What a mysterious faculty is that queen of the faculties!

And never forget, there is memory.

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality

Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

Memory is imagination pinned down.

It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence.

Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unlocking of meaning and the wellspring of creativity.

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

The human brain had a vast memory storage. It made us curious and very creative. Those were the characteristics that gave us an advantage - curiosity, creativity and memory. And that brain did something very special. It invented an idea called 'the future.'

You cannot stop the human mind from working.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.