Information Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I…

— Michel de Montaigne

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is…

— Thomas Fuller

Memory weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of…

— Julio Cortazar

It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it.

— Thomas de Quincey

I guess what I find so interesting about memory, and its role in a person's identity, is how the attempt to achieve accuracy requires…

— Heidi Julavits

Your memory is a monster; it summons with will of its own. You think you have a memory, but it has you.

— John Irving

“Memory can refuse to let you forget what you’d like to and run away with what you want to remember. It’s an unreliable bitch,…

— Megan Hart

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from…

— John Irving

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

— Alice Munro

Remembered memory is much more powerful than actually having your own memory.

— Roma Tearne

“...here we have the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems…

— Noam Shpancer

What is memory but the repository of things doomed to be forgotten, so you must have History. You must have labor to invent History.…

— Joyce Carol Oates