Memory Quotes
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.Author Unknown
We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.Ralph Waldo Emerson
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.Cicero
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.Henry David Thoreau
Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.William James
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?Martin Tuppe
Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than minority of them - Never become conscious of them all. How much of total reality can such an apparatus let through?C. S. Lewis
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.Saint Mary Euphrasia (Rose Virginie Pelletier)
I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.Vladimir Nabokov
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.Georges Duhamel
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.Theodore Harold White
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.James Branch Cabell
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A liar should have a good memory.Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.George Dennison Prentice
If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.Friedrich Nietzsche
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.Leonardo da Vinci
Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.Lester J. Pourciau
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Your body is just the place your memory calls home.Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing
The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady.Richard Milhous Nixon
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.Ethel Barrymore
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.Percy Bysshe Shelley
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.Marcel Proust
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.Samuel Johnson
Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.La Rochefoucauld
Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.Leonardo da Vinci
