Quotes on Memories

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.

Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.

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

If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory since childhood. These memories which live by the image and in virtue of the image become, at certain times of our lives and particularly during the quiet age, the origin and matter of a complex reverie: the memory dreams, and reverie remembers.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

We who choose to surround ourselves_x000D_ with lives even more temporary than our_x000D_ own, live within a fragile circle;_x000D_ easily and often breached._x000D_ Unable to accept its awful gaps,_x000D_ we would still live no other way._x000D_ We cherish memory as the only_x000D_ certain immortality, never fully_x000D_ understanding the necessary plan.

Writers serve as the memory of a people. They chew over our public past.

Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse.

It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.

A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism.... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.