Memory Quotes

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
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitze
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Martin Tuppe
Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.
Georges Duhamel
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Rita Mae Brown
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
Theodore Harold White
Your body is just the place your memory calls home.
Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing
John lancaster spalding - as memory may be a paradise from which we cannot...
George dennison prentice - memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is...
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Prove
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Marcel proust - there is no one, no matter how wise he is, who...
Memory feeds imagination.
Amy Tan
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
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.
La Rochefoucauld
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Michel de Montaigne
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
Michel de Montaigne
Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn