Music is the best storage for human memory. As soon as you…

“A train has a poor memory; it soon puts all behind it.”

— Ray Bradbury

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

— Marcus Aurelius

Human memory, they say, is like a coat closet: The most enduring outcome of a formal education is that it creates rows of coat…

— Ursula Goodenough

“We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who exaggerate the importance of one event…

— Milan Kundera

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all…

— Thomas Carlyle

Human memory the first virtual library.

— Mariana Fulger

“The human memory is such a cruel, frustrating thing, the way it just discards things without asking permission, precious things.”

— Lisa Jewell

Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business.

— Mark Twain

“What is human memory?" Manning asked. He gazed at the air as he spoke, as if lecturing an invisible audience - as perhaps he…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the…

— William Saroyan

Organizing facts in terms of principles and ideas from which they may be inferred is the only known way of reducing the quick rate…

— Jerome Bruner

“A tombstone is memory made concrete. Human memory is the ladder on which a country and a people advance. We must remember not only…

— Yang Jisheng

“But did you know that eyewitness testimony is often totally unreliable? The human memory only records events through the filter of its own frame…

— Lisa Unger

The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that…

— Edward Gibbon

“We don’t even survive in the memories of the living. Science has destroyed that myth. Whenever we remember something, what we’re doing is remembering…

— Enrique de Hériz