Memory Quotes
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.Tryon Edwards
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.Michel de Montaigne
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?Martin Tuppe
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
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.Leonardo da Vinci
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.Maurice Baring
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
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
Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.John Lancaster Spalding
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.Michel de Montaigne
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
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
God gives us memory so that we may have roses in December.J. M. Barrie
A liar should have a good memory.Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
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
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
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things? but 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, O Magazine, October 2002
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.Aeschylus
Your body is just the place your memory calls home.Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.Rita Mae Brown
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
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
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.John Kenneth Galbraith
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.Doug Larson
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.Richard Whately
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.George W. Douglas
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - - Rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.Bill Beattie
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
We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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
