Memory Quotes

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

A liar should have a good memory.

Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

Georges Duhamel

Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.

Leonardo da Vinci

There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.

Marcel Proust

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Ethel Barrymore

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Prove

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

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Richard Whately

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Elie Wiesel

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

Doug Larson

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.

Firmianus Lactantius

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

P. D. James

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting