Memory Quotes

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

J. M. Barrie, British Playwright

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

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

Leonardo DaVinci

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Michel de Montaigne

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

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Prove

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Aeschylus

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

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.

Firmianus Lactantius

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

God gives us memory so that we may have roses in December.

J. M. Barrie

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

P. D. James

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

Albert Schweitze

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

Lester J. Pourciau

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, 1898