Memory Quotes
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What we learn with pleasure we never forget. (Quote by - Alfred Mercier)
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. (Quote by - Salvador Dali)
A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart! (Quote by - Eliza Cook)
Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And God within far Heaven refuse to light The consolation of the dawn for me,-- Between the shadowy burns of Heaven and Hell, It is enough love leaves my soul to dwell With memory. (Quote by - Madison Julius Cawein)
The selective memory isn't selective enough. (Quote by - Blake Morrison)
By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory. (Quote by - Don Campbell)
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. (Quote by - James Branch Cabell)
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. (Quote by - Bible)
The true art of memory is the art of attention. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise! (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
Out of sighte, out of mynde. (Quote by - Lady Anne Bacon)
Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age. (Quote by - Lactantius Firmianus)
When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in, When our angels stand in a waiting hush, Remember the Marne and Ferdinand Foch. (Quote by - William Bliss Carman)
Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. (Quote by - Chief Seattle)
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Oh, I have roamed o'er many lands, And many friends I've met; Not one fair scene or kindly smile Can this fond heart forget. (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)
The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee; But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, And all that thou hast done for me! (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought. (Quote by - Basile)
The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust. (Quote by - Persian Proverb)
A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravelled, fondly turns to thee; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good. (Quote by - Nietzsche)
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? (Quote by - La Rochefoucauld)
Yet how much less it were to gain, Though thou hast left me free, The loveliest things that still remain, Than thus remember thee. (Quote by - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. (Quote by - Elizabeth Bowen)
I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility. (Quote by - Paula Poundstone)
Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set, Advantage by the friendly Distance get. (Quote by - Guillaume Alexis)
Every man's memory is his private literature. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment. (Quote by - Michel De Montaigne)
Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago. (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)
The palest ink is better than the best memory. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. (Quote by - Maurice Baring)
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. (Quote by - Edward de Bono)
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. (Quote by - J M Barrie)
The painful memories of the past will shape our future; the moments we cherish last forever in a beautiful array of remembrance. (Quote by - Paul Acquasanta)
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. (Quote by - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
Unless we remember we cannot understand. (Quote by - Edward M. Forster)
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment -- but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer? (Quote by - Lord Byron)
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. (Quote by - Michael de Montaigne)
Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible. (Quote by - General Enrico Cialdini)
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. (Quote by - Cicero)
Forget those things that aren't worth remembering. (Quote by - Tim Foley)
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. (Quote by - Doug Larson)
Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
Don't remember what you can infer. (Quote by - Harry Tennant)
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown; Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembl'd with fear at your frown! (Quote by - Thomas Dunn English)
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. (Quote by - Montaigne)
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne)
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. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist. (Quote by - Enrico Fermi)
But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone. (Quote by - Euripides)
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. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)
I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my Nath, doth breeds in me the more continuall remembrance of him. (Quote by - Lady Anne Bacon)
Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep. (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)
Memories are all we really own. (Quote by - Elias Lieberman)
