Quotes on memory
Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.
Franklin, Benjamin
It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
A god cannot survive as a memory.
Author, Unknown
What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.
Ozick, Cynthia
Any given program will expand to fill available memory
Author, Unknown
'Tis in my memory locked and you yourself shall keep the key of it
Author, Unknown
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again.
Author, Unknown
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Author, Unknown
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
Newman, John Henry Cardinal
To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Wilde, Oscar
Time moves in one direction, memory in another.
Gibson, William
I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.
Gerrold, David
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Montaigne, Michel de
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
James, P.D.
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Kingsolver, Barbara
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius
A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine 'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.
Calisher, Hortense
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Huxley, Aldous
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.
Author, Unknown
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
Ackerman, Diane
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.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
A man needs a good memory after he has lied.
Author, Unknown