Memory Quotes

Wouldn't you like to have an augmented memory chip that you could plug into your head so you don't have to look everything up and remember everything?

Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

His impact would have been of transient memory and comparatively small importance, had not that impact occurred at a time and in a way to make it supply particulars from which momentous generalizations can properly be projected.

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

When your entire brain is active, that means you are taking everything in through all sense perception. Your entire memory bank and your instincts are in play, so you make much quicker and more intelligent choices.

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.

It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a lot... and memory is important.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.