William James Quotes

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

I retain what's interesting to me, but I don't have a lot of strategic depth.

It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.

[...]my memory is reasonably good—unlike yours, dear sir!” “Mine is erratic,” he said imperturbably. “I remember only what interests me.

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.

I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head!

I have a great memory.

I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.

I fortunately have a good memor, and that helps a lot in the way I write.

I just have pretty good recall of information.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

Memory is, of course, a trickster.

Memory feeds imagination.

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

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

Memory is the basis of every journey.

The more intelligible a thing is, the more easily it is retained in the memory, and counterwise, the less intelligible it is, the more easily we forget it.

I'm aware of everything - it's my job - I keep up to speed, and I have a blessed memory. The brain chemistry I have is such that my memory is wonderful. And sometimes it's helpful, and other times it ends up being frustrating.

Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.

Memory is imagination pinned down.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.