Memory Quotes

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert Einstein

Today, Events, Deceptive

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln

Good, Liar, Successful

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France

Education, Between, Able

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller

Life, Good, Heart

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Khalil Gibran

Today, Tomorrow, Dream

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn

Happiness, Health, True

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
Kurt Cobain

Time, Good, Everything

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
Lewis B. Smedes

Change, Hope, Future

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde

Hope, Live, Bills

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo

Wife, Mistress, Servant

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
Albert Schweitzer

Happiness, Good, Health

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Simply, Original

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles R. Swindoll

Children, Lives, Banks

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life, Living, Dead

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard

Good, True, Forget

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David Thoreau

Beauty, Human, Landscape

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
Josh Billings

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
Gilbert Parker

Foolish, Deeds, Spirits

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
Robert Frost

End, Hard, Later

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
Tad Williams

Love, Trust, Home

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
Bob Dylan

Tomorrow, Yesterday, Supposed

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Plato

Study, Slavery, Studies

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de Montaigne

Forget, Nothing, Wish

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci

Anyone, Authority, Argument

I've a grand memory for forgetting.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Forgetting, Grand

My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I'm still around.
John Wooden

Good, Away, Around

Every man's memory is his private literature.
Aldous Huxley

Literature, Private

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.
Bill Gates

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus

Great, Pain, Joy

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