William Walker Atkinson Quotes

“A character retaining a feeble hold of bitter experience, or genuine delight, and unable to revive afterwards the impression of the time is in reality the victim of an intellectual weakness.”

“A man's real possession is his memory; in nothing else is he rich; in nothing else is he poor.”

“All persons ought to practice their visualizing power. This will react upon perception and make it more definite.

Visualizing will also form a brain habit of remembering things pictorially, and hence more exactly.”

“Endeavor to link by some thought relation each new mental acquisition to an old one.

Bind new facts to other facts by relations of similarity, cause and effect, whole and part, or by any logical relation, and we shall find that when an idea occurs to us, a host of related ideas will flow into the mind.”

“If every sensation, thought, or emotion passed entirely from the mind the moment it ceased to be present, then it would be as if it had not been; and it could not be recognized or named should it happen to return.

Such one would not only be without knowledge – without experience gathered from the past – but without purpose, aim, or plan regarding the future, for these imply knowledge and require memory.”

“The essence of genius is to present an old thing in new ways, whether it be some force in nature or some aspect of humanity.”

“The great art of memory is attention. Inattentive people have always bad memories.”

“We remember because we cannot help it but we recollect only through positive effort.”