Memory
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
- Connolly, Cyril
- Connolly, Cyril
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
- Proust, Marcel
Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
- Bacon, Francis
- Bacon, Francis
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
- Byron, Lord
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
- Milan Kundera
- Milan Kundera
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
- Doug Larson
- Doug Larson
A liar should have a good memory.
- Quintilian
- Quintilian
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
- Rita Mae Brown
- Rita Mae Brown
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
- Wiesel, Elie
Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
- Cicero, Marcus T.
- Cicero, Marcus T.
The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
- Proverb, Persian
- Proverb, Persian
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
- Tryon Edwards
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
- Thomas Fuller
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
- Bill Beattie
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
- James M. Barrie
- James M. Barrie
No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
- Frost, Robert
- Frost, Robert
The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
- Rogers, Will
- Rogers, Will
The selective memory isn't selective enough.
- Morrison, Blake
- Morrison, Blake
Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!
- Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan
- Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan
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
- Dewey, John


















