Memory Quotes
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
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?Martin Tuppe
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose - Garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind.T. S. Eliot
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.Michel de Montaigne
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.James Branch Cabell
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
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.
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
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
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.Doug Larson
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
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
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
A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.Unknown
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
There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.Timothy Leary
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.Author Unknown
Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.La Rochefoucauld
Memory feeds imagination.Amy Tan
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.John Henry Cardinal Newman
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
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.Lyste
No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.Leo Buscaglia
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
A liar should have a good memory.Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.George W. Douglas
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.Antonio Porchia
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.Maurice Baring
When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.Jerome K. Jerome
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.George Dennison Prentice
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
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
