Famous quotes containing the words memory, stick and/or pro:
“The memory loaded with mere bookwork is not the thing wantedis, in fact, rather worse than uselessin the teacher of scientific subjects. It is absolutely essential that his mind should be full of knowledge and not of mere learning, and that what he knows should have been learned in the laboratory rather than in the library.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (182595)
“That whatever a man says, promises, or resolves in passion he must stick to later on when he is cold and soberthis demand is among the heaviest burdens that weigh on humankind.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“It is sweet and honourable to die for ones country.
[Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.]”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 B.C.)
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