“Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
“Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.”
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Roman philosopher and statesman -106–-43 BCRelated quotes
“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
... il n'est rien creu si fermement que ce qu'on sçait le moins, ...
Book I, Ch. 31
Essais (1595), Book I
Variant: Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
Source: The Complete Essays
L. P. Jacks (1860–1955) British educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister
The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
Context: Philosophy has been called the search for the Permanent amid the changing. With this account of philosophy there is no need to quarrel. But having accepted it, a distinction remains to be observed, a distinction of capital importance, which we are in constant danger of forgetting. It is one thing to find the Permanent; it is another thing to find a form of words in which the Permanent shall stand permanently expressed. It is one thing to experience something fixed and changeless; it is another thing to fix this something by a changeless definition. The first may be possible, while the second remains impossible for ever.
Jenny Colgan (1972) British writer
Source: The Little Shop of Happy Ever After
“Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.”
Robert Herrick book Hesperides
"Seek and Find". Compare: "Nil tam difficilest quin quærendo investigari possiet" (transalted as "Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking"), Terence, Heautontimoroumenos, iv. 2, 8.
Hesperides (1648)
“There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.”
Isaac Asimov book I, Robot
“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 189
Source: I, Robot (1950)
Nathaniel Emmons (1745–1840) American clergy
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 348.