James Russell Lowell Quotes about Memories

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Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

James Russell Lowell

Time, Memories, Son

James Russell Lowell (1871). “My Study Windows”, p.64

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

James Russell Lowell

Memories, Knowledge, Mean

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

James Russell Lowell

Memories, Gymnastics, Intellectual

James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.119

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

James Russell Lowell

Memories, Attention, Genius

James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.595, Delphi Classics

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.

James Russell Lowell

Memories, Giving, Perception

James Russell Lowell (1890). “The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Ten Volumes: Literary and political addresses”