Amanda Schull Quotes

Language is a nice way to remember things.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

I've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.

I just have pretty good recall of information.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

I can never remember things I didn't understand in the first place.

Facts are often complicated.

I really strongly believe that we should be judged not by how we acted when we were ignorant, but how we responded when we were informed.

I have an excellent memory - for books and authors, that is. I remember all the books I've read.

You remember all your teachers.

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.

We can only be faithful to what we remember, and we remember only what we have known.

An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives.

To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward.

There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.

When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.

Interviewing is in some ways the art of memory.

I’m sick of asking questions everyone else already knows the answers to.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.