Memory Quotes

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I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can't tell you any line… — Bill Nighy
Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory. — James A. Garfield
Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment. — Michel de Montaigne
The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Personality in man is what is "not his own" . . . what come from outside, what he has learned, or reflects, all traces of… — G I Gurdjieff
To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. — Samuel Johnson
Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the… — Leonardo da Vinci
How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet; now dying all away, Now pealing loud again,… — William Cowper
What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. — William Cowper
Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there. — William Stafford
Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love. — Rumi
I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words… — John Steinbeck
Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography. — Erica Jong
The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! — Jane Austen
Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning. — Stendhal
A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find… — Robertson Davies
It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own... — Paul Gauguin

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