Memory Quotes

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

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

Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.

George W. Douglas

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

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

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

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell

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 great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

Saint Mary Euphrasia (Rose Virginie Pelletier)

Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.

La Rochefoucauld

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

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

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

Maurice Baring

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith