Quotes
Quotes about Memory
Memory [is] like a purse,--if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
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.
The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
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 momentâbut who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?
The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.
Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
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.
I have short-term memory loss, though I like to think of it as Presidential eligibility.
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
The selective memory isn't selective enough.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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.
The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
