Memory Quotes
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.Thomas Fulle
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
We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.Abraham Lincoln
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.Arthur Schopenhaue
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.Maurice Baring
Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.Michel de Montaigne
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.James M. Barrie
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
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
Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.George Dennison Prentice
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.James Carroll
The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.Arthur Schopenhaue
All writers - All people - Have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half - Forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.Sir V Pritchett
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality.... The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.George Santayana
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 a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things.Pierce Harris
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.Antonio Porchia
I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.Vladimir Nabokov
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.Friedrich Nietzsche
Gratitude is the memory of the heart.Saint Mary Euphrasia (Rose Virginie Pelletier)
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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.
A liar should have a good memory.Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.James Branch Cabell
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.Lester J. Pourciau
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
Your body is just the place your memory calls home.Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.Leonardo DaVinci
A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.Unknown
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.Rotarian
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.T. S. Eliot
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
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.Edward de Bono
