Memory Quotes

76 quotations about Memory
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey · Memory
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
George Herbert · Memory
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard · Memory
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Aldous Huxley · Memory
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel Johnson · Memory
What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
Samuel Johnson · Memory
Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
Thomas Kempis · Memory
It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Barbara Kingsolver · Memory
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Milan Kundera · Memory
I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.
Joe E. Lewis · Memory
Memories are all we really own.
Elias Lieberman · Memory
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · Memory
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
Alfred Mercier · Memory
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne · Memory
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne · Memory
The selective memory isn't selective enough.
Blake Morrison · Memory
Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
Jean Paul · Memory
We don't remember days; we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese · Memory
Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
Edgar Allan Poe · Memory
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
Alexander Pope · Memory
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia · Memory
That translucent alabaster of our memories.
Marcel Proust · Memory
One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.
Proverb · Memory
The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.
Chinese Proverb · Memory
When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.
Irish Proverb · Memory

Authors on Memory

Aeschylus Aristotle Maurice Baring Ellen Barkin Garrett Bartley James Branch Cabell Bumper Sticker Luis Bunuel Willa Cather Alexander Chase Chinese Proverb Marcus T. Cicero Joseph Conrad Eliza Cook Noel Coward Dante Alighieri Charles Dickens Joan Didion Clifton Fadiman Enrico Fermi