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
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.La Rochefoucauld
Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.La Rochefoucauld
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
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.Francis Bacon
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
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
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.Rotarian
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.Michel de Montaigne
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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
Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.Georges Duhamel
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
