Quotes
Quotes about Memory
Sacred to the memory of printing, the art preservative of all arts. This was first invented about the year 1440. [Lat., Memoriae sacrum Typographia Ars artium omnium Conservatrix Hic primum inventa Circa annum mccccxl.
We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. - The Heart's Domain.
...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.
Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it. - The Heart's Domain.
If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. - Aphorisms and Reflections.
I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. - Strong Opinions.
Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory As doth the raven o'er the infected house, Boding to all!--He had my handkerchief.
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.
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.
These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.
April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
Short term memory loss equals long term memory gain
Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high; "I drink to one," he said, "Whose image never may depart, Deep graven on this grateful heart, Till memory be dead." . . . . St. Leon paused, as if he would Not breathe her name in careless mood Thus lightly to another; Then bent his noble head, as though To give the word the reverence due, And gently said, "My mother!"
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it.
The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]
He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
