Memory Quotes
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.Samuel Johnson
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.Edward de Bono
There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.Timothy Leary
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.La Rochefoucauld
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.Aeschylus
Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.Author Unknown
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
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.Michel de Montaigne
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
No man has a good enough memory to be a sucessful liar.Abrahm Lincoln
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
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.John Kenneth Galbraith
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
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.J. M. Barrie, British Playwright
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.James Branch Cabell
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?Martin Tuppe
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
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.Ingrid Bergman
No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.Leo Buscaglia
God gives us memory so that we may have roses in December.J. M. Barrie
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
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.John Henry Cardinal Newman
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.Michel de Montaigne
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
Your body is just the place your memory calls home.Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing
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 feeds imagination.Amy Tan
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
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.Rotarian
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
