For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

—Tryon Edwards

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Tryon Edwards (7 August 1809, Hartford, Conn. – 4 January 1894, Detroit, Mich.) was an American theologian, minister of the Second Congregational Church in New London, Connecticut, from 1845 to 1857, after having served in Rochester, New York. He was best known for his collection of quotations, A Dictionary of...

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Teaching is not a lost art, but regard for teaching is a lost tradition.

—Tryon Edwards

If you would know anything thoroughly, teach it to others.

—Tryon Edwards in A Dictionary of Thoughts

learning knowledge teaching

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions
in the past.

—Tryon Edwards

future mistakes past regret apology

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

—Rachel Carson

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

—Michel de Montaigne

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

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