Memory Quotes

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There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third. — Timothy Leary
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to… — Primo Levi
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. — Philip Levine
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar. — Abraham Lincoln
Perhaps this is the most important thing for me to take back from beach-living: simply the memory that each cycle of the tide is valid;… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Memory is more indelible than ink. — Anita Loos
I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past.… — Sophia Loren
Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date. It's the year… — Christian Louboutin
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. — James Russell Lowell
Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the… — Yo-Yo Ma
Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. — Harvey Mackay
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. — Maurice Maeterlinck
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. — Malcolm X
'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. — Hilary Mantel
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. — Edwin Markham
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art… — Andre Maurois
Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich. — Mike Mills
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. — Michel de Montaigne
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. — Michel de Montaigne
Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie. — Michel de Montaigne

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