“Remembering is a great invention of the mind.”
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Robert Henry Thurston (1839–1903) mechanical engineer
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“War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.”
Norman Cousins (1915–1990) American journalist
Who Speaks for Man? (1953), p. 318.
“To remember something or to invent something, it comes to the same thing.”
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
Obituaries (1979)
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Source: Speeches And Letters Of Abraham Lincoln, 1832 1865
“Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
“When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.”
Gary Snyder (1930) American poet
Source: Earth House Hold
Galileo Galilei book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)