Fixed Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it reveals.

— Anna Funder

Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

— Julio Cortazar

No one's memory is infallible, of course - quite the opposite.

— Sigrid Nunez

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

“Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it…

— Balthasar Gracian

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on memory alone.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

— Amy Tan

“Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it”

— Cat Patrick

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

— Edward de Bono

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

— Marilynne Robinson