Quotes
But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill,
and we forget because we must, and not because we will.
~ Matthew Arnold ~
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind
what is unnecessary.
~ Maurice Baring ~
Never forget what you need to remember.
~ Garrett Bartley ~
Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason,
the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.
~ Basile ~
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.
~ Elizabeth Bowen ~
As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a
simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is
the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name
contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.
~ Sandra Boynton ~
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory
of some temptation we resisted.
~ James Branch Cabell ~
If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.
~ Bumper Sticker ~
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?
~ Lord Byron ~
The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated
the experience is within memory.
~ Don Campbell ~
Memory is the thing you forget with.
~ Alexander Chase ~
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit,
posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
~ Charles Caleb Colton ~
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same
as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most
real, the most brilliant.
~ Salvador Dali ~
Lord, keep my memory green.
~ Charles Dickens ~
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred
memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education
of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him,
he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good
memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of
our salvation one day.
~ Fyodor Dostoevski ~
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a
botanist.
~ Enrico Fermi ~
Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth
and delights old age.
~ Lactantius Firmianus ~
Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.
~ Tim Foley ~
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 ~
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for
being treated with contempt while we are living.
~ William Hazlitt ~
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget
is the true token of greatness.
~ Elbert Hubbard ~
Every man's memory is his private literature.
~ Aldous Huxley ~
The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to
things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether
I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or
dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware
of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image
in the moving water.
~ Eugene Ionesco ~
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
~ Samuel Johnson ~
Memories are all we really own.
~ Elias Lieberman ~
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.
~ Lyster ~
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
~ Alfred Mercier ~
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne ~
The selective memory isn't selective enough.
~ Blake Morrison ~
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times
the same good things for the first time.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious
patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me
she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of
being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy
who was playing outside in the yard.
~ Wilder Penfield ~
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are
linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads
rise!
~ Alexander Pope ~
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.
~ Marcel Proust ~
The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write
kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
~ Persian Proverb ~
Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all
held in our minds.
~ Helen Hoover Santmyer ~
Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
~ Chief Seattle ~
Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have
to fake it.
~ Cray Seymore ~
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered
is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe
--though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because
it's in the past; because we have survived.
~ Susan Sontag ~
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
~ Italo Svevo ~
Don't remember what you can infer.
~ Harry Tennant ~
The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the
act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you
can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from
place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain,
polling one center after another for signs of re recognition,
for old memories and old connection.
~ Lewis Thomas ~
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular
poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible
impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking
for their cars in mall parking lots.
~ Jay Trachman ~
Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what
we hear; 30 percent of what we see o50 percent of what we hear
and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say
and do
~ Source Unknown ~
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
~ Tennessee Williams ~
The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the
total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.
~ Jon Wynne-Tyson ~
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
~ Aesop ~
The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will
some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness
grows in this way.
~ Robert Alan ~
Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout
one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such:
Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.
~ Analects ~
A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.
~ William John Bennett ~
Education is the mother of leadership.
~ Wendell L. Willkie ~
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible
things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make
sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the
problem solved.
~ Thomas Wolfe ~
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