Alice Walker Quotes

Vision sometimes comes in a memory.

Memory is imagination pinned down.

Even under normal conditions, how we can distinguish various events, various experiences, and be able to reproduce it later is, of course, a very interesting question and, I think, one that we face in day to day life.

I have a great memory.

Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.

Memory demands an image.

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

The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has shot at them, and even the horse on which he rides.

I have a phenomenal memory. I remember every single thing that anybody said to me, ever did to me, who was nice to me and who was not nice to me.

I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

The soul never thinks without a picture.

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

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

Thinking is seeing.... Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Remembering is part of thinking, but not all of it.

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

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

People forget years and remember moments.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

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