“As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
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William Shakespeare699
English playwright and poet 1564–1616Related quotes
“With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by thought”
Charles Churchill (satirist) (1731–1764) British poet
Epistle to William Hogarth (July 1763), line 645
Context: With curious art the brain, too finely wrought,
Preys on herself, and is destroy'd by thought:
Constant attention wears the active mind,
Blots out our powers, and leaves a blank behind.
Stanislaw Ulam (1909–1984) Polish-American mathematician
Source: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 15, Random Reflections on Mathematics and Science, p. 278
“I told my brain., said my brain. My brain refused to get out of my head. Inconsiderate brain.”
Rick Riordan book The Hammer of Thor
Source: The Hammer of Thor
“All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.
Remembered line from a long-
forgotten poem”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
Source: Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
"Building a Moral Society", Chamberlin Lecture at Lewis & Clark College (1995)
Context: An immoral society betrays humanity because it betrays the basis for humanity, which is memory. An immoral society deals with memory as some politicians deal with politics. A moral society is committed to memory: I believe in memory. The Greek word alethia means Truth, Things that cannot be forgotten. I believe in those things that cannot be forgotten and because of that so much in my work deals with memory... What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.
