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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)
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it. (Quote by - Cray Seymore)
Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
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)