Quotes about memory

"That translucent alabaster of our memories."

Proust, Marcel on memory   

"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."

Proust, Marcel on memory   

"One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf."

Proverb on memory   

"The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory."

Proverb, Chinese on memory   

"When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets."

Proverb, Irish on memory
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"The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust."

Proverb, Persian on memory
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"Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out."

Richter, Jean Paul on memory
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"Memory always obeys the commands of the heart."

Rivarol, Antoine on memory   

"The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office."

Rogers, Will on memory
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"You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness."

Rogers, Will on memory
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"Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye."

Russell, Peter on memory   

"In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral."

Santayana, George on memory   

"Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds."

Santmyer, Helen Hoover on memory   

"Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints."

Seattle, Chief on memory   

"Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember."

Seneca on memory
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"Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it."

Seymore, Cray on memory
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"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe, and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end."

Shakespeare, William on memory
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"Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad."

Shaw, George Bernard on memory   

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on memory   

"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."

Smith, Alexander on memory   

"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."

Sontag, Susan on memory
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"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."

Svevo, Italo on memory   

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"Observation is an old man's memory."

Swift, Jonathan on memory   

"Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age."

Tarkington, Booth on memory   

"Don't remember what you can infer."

Tennant, Harry on memory   

"The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection."

Thomas, Lewis on memory   

"Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them."

Thoreau, Henry David on memory   

"Of what significance are the things you can forget."

Thoreau, Henry David on memory
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"Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots."

Trachman, Jay on memory   

"Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?"

Tupper, Martin on memory
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"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not."

Twain, Mark on memory
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"If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything."

Twain, Mark on memory
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"So live that your memories will be part of your happiness."

Unknown, Source on memory   

"Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do"

Unknown, Source on memory   

"Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget."

Unknown, Source on memory   

"People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering."

Unknown, Source on memory   

"Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory."

Unknown, Source on memory   

"Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember."

Virgil on memory   

"That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it."

Wiesel, Elie on memory   

"Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us."

Wilde, Oscar on memory