"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."

Aeschylus on Memory
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"I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is."

Allen, Fred A. on Memory
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"Memory is the scribe of the soul."

Aristotle on Memory
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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."

Arnold, Matthew on Memory
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"Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence."

Asch, Sholem on Memory
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"Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary."

Baring, Maurice on Memory
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"People tend to remember my performances, not me."

Barkin, Ellen on Memory
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"Never forget what you need to remember."

Bartley, Garrett on Memory
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"Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought."

Basile on Memory
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"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred."

Benjamin, Walter on Memory
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"Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text."

Benjamin, Walter on Memory
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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."

Bowen, Elizabeth on Memory
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"As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate."

Boynton, Sandra on Memory
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"There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted."

Branch Cabell, James on Memory
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"If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys."

Bumper Sticker on Memory
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"I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life."

Bunuel, Luis on Memory
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"You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing."

Bunuel, Luis on Memory
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"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?"

Byron, Lord on Memory
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"The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory."

Campbell, Don on Memory
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"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance."

Carnegie, Dale on Memory
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"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."

Cather, Willa on Memory
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"Memory is the thing you forget with."

Chase, Alexander on Memory
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"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Memory
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"Sweet is the memory of past troubles."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Memory
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"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Memory
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"Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control."

Connolly, Cyril on Memory
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"Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory."

Conrad, Joseph on Memory
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"Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!"

Cook, Eliza on Memory
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"I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me."

Coward, Noel on Memory
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"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."

Dali, Salvador on Memory
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"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

Dante Alighieri on Memory
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"This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice."

Diana, Princess of Wales on Memory
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"Lord, keep my memory green."

Dickens, Charles on Memory
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"We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget."

Didion, Joan on Memory
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"You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on Memory
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"A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial."

Fadiman, Clifton on Memory
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"If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist."

Fermi, Enrico on Memory
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"Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age."

Firmianus, Lactantius on Memory
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"Forget those things that aren't worth remembering."

Foley, Tim on Memory
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"Unless we remember we cannot understand."

Forster, Edward M. on Memory
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