Memory Quotes

A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
Your body is just the place your memory calls home.
Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing
Ingrid bergman - happiness is good health and a bad memory....
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
Arthur schopenhaue - the memory should be specially taxed in youth,...
One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.
Timothy Leary
Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.
Leonardo da Vinci
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
John Lancaster Spalding
Arthur schopenhaue - the memory should be specially taxed in youth,...
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 tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.
Firmianus Lactantius
Anyone who does not feel sufficiently strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
Maurice Baring
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 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
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
Author Unknown
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitze
No man has a good enough memory to be a sucessful liar.
Abrahm Lincoln
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Doug Larson
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
Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.
Elie Wiesel
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
Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.
Elbert Hubbard
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
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.
Benjamin Franklin
Each happiness of yesterday is a memory for tomorrow.
George W. Douglas
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
Michel de Montaigne
Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.
Richard Whately
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually memory yields.
Friedrich Nietzsche, from the book Lies my Teacher Told Me. By James W. Loewen (1995)
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
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
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
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
P. D. James
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.
Georges Duhamel
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.
Leonardo DaVinci
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Prove
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