Memory Quotes

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Martin Tuppe

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

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

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

Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Georges Duhamel

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

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

J. M. Barrie, British Playwright

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Richard Whately

I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov

A liar should have a good memory.

Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Elie Wiesel

A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever.

Unknown

Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.

Leonardo DaVinci

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

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

A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Anna Mary Robertson Moses

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

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

Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Edward de Bono

No man has a good enough memory to be a sucessful liar.

Abrahm Lincoln

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Maurice Baring

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitze

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

Rotarian

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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

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

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Benjamin Franklin

I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again.

Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca

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 not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.

George Dennison Prentice

Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.

George W. Douglas

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

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan