2,914 Quotes About Memory

We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have probably forgotten far more than we now remember.

We only reach true wisdom when we accept that we have almost certainly forgotten more than we currently remember.

Sometimes the good memories are just as painful as the bad ones.

Press them continually with memory and dream and have them waste their Present there.

I may not know who I am, but I know where I am from.

He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe it and to be more lenient toward his own life. But that didn't help: he took no pleasure in looking back, and he did it as seldom as possible.

In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new country had no history. History was something that applied to other places.

The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to becomeerased as the years go by, but often they change, or even grow, by incorporating extraneous features. Judges know this very well: almost never do two eyewitnesses of the same event describe it in the same way and with the same words, even if the event is recent and if neither of them has a personal interest in distorting it.

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.