Memory Quotes
76 quotations about Memory
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.
Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.
It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.
Memories are all we really own.
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
The selective memory isn't selective enough.
Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
We don't remember days; we remember moments.
Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
That translucent alabaster of our memories.
One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.
The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.
When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.