2,914 Quotes About Memory

Perhaps memory is like a bucket; if you want to cram into it more fruit than it will hold, the fruit is crushed.

You may ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to desire to set down what they have witnesses for the benefit of unknown heirs or of generations infinitely remote; or, if you please, just to get the sight out of their heads.

Memory has strange power keeps full data of the past.

It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.

Regard for the past only extends to its outward forms.

Other than that, we have each told the truth, and each truth is our own.

...education is the ability to retrieve information at will and analyze it. But you can't have higher-level learning- you can't analyze-without retrieving information.' And you can't retrieve information without putting the information in there in the first place. The dichotomy between "learning" and "memorizing" is false, Matthews contends. You can't learn without memorizing, and if done right, you can't memorize without learning.

I ricordi più preziosi, al pari degli oggetti delicati, rischiano di sciuparsi se li si maneggia troppo

I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.