memory

1.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

- Connolly, Cyril

2.

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

- Proust, Marcel

3.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

- Bacon, Francis

4.

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

5.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

- Milan Kundera

6.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

- Doug Larson

7.

A liar should have a good memory.

- Quintilian

8.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

- Rita Mae Brown

9.

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

10.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

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

- Proverb, Persian

12.

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.

- Tryon Edwards

13.

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.

- Thomas Fuller

14.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

- Bill Beattie

15.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

- James M. Barrie

16.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

- Frost, Robert

17.

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

- Rogers, Will

18.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

- Morrison, Blake

19.

Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!

- Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan

20.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think -- rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.

- Dewey, John