Memory is the diary that we all carry around with us
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Topic
The collection draws a sharp line between information and thought. Franklin's observation that to cease to think creatively is but little different from ceasing to live is the animating principle — but Camus complicates it by insisting that the intellectual's mind watches itself, and that this is not always a virtue. Twain tips the balance toward the heart, while Chesterton defends the indirect route from eye to emotion that bypasses logic entirely. Browning, Dickens, and Blake add texture: the mind as searcher, as faculty for distinguishing feeling from cleverness, as the contested ground between imagination and reason. These quotes are most useful when you are trying to articulate what it means to think well — as opposed to merely knowing a great deal.
Memory is the diary that we all carry around with us
Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk
Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man