Memory Quotes
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.Benjamin Franklin
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
Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.La Rochefoucauld
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.John Henry Cardinal Newman
A liar should have a good memory.Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.P. D. James
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
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
We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.Abraham Lincoln
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
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
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 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
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
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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 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 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
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.Leonardo da Vinci
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 memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady.Richard Milhous Nixon
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.Antonio Porchia
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.Timothy Leary
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.Richard Whately
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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
I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.Vladimir Nabokov
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
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
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
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.Leonardo da Vinci
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.Lester J. Pourciau
