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Memories Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.
- It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.
- It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements.
- In his commerce with men I mean him to include- and that principally- those who live only in the memory of books. By means of…
- He who is not sure of his memory, should not undertake the trade of lying.
- The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
- Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
- Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
- We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
- Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie.
- Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.
- He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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- Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared. — Paul Auster
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- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. — Francis Bacon
- For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — Francis Bacon
- History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. — Lord Acton
- There are millions and billions of atoms of memory of all kinds of musical themes in me. — Erykah Badu