Memory Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?”
– Dan Simmons

“Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They’re all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?”
– Dan Simmons

“I have memories – but only a fool stores his past in the future.” 
– David Gerrold

“I have memories – but only a fool stores his past in the future.”
– David Gerrold

“We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.”
– David Seamands

“Nothing is more memorable than a smell.  One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town.  Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years.  Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once.  A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.” 
– Diane Ackerman

“Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a “foregone conclusion.” Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes.”
– Diane F. Halpren

“I’m always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.” 
– Diane Sawyer

“A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.”
– Doug Larson

“My memories pale as I prevail upon them again and again. They become more and more ghostly. I fear nothing so much as losing them altogether and having only my blank endless mind to live in.”
– E.L. Doctorow

“Today is another great opportunity to create that lifestyle that you failed to create in the past. Your past can never determine your future if you are not willing to settle for it. However, a new beginning can only come from the change of one’s thought patterns.”
– Edmond Mbiaka

“I think you remember everything … you just can’t bring it to mind all the time.”
– Edward Albee

“Memory is a bad book-keeper.”
– Edward Counsel

“Memory is the greatest traveller.”
– Edward Counsel

“A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.” 
– Edward de Bono

“A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.”
– Eugene Ionesco

“We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory.”
– Eugene Ionesco

“She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.” 
– Frank Deford

“Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.”
– Frank Herbert

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“The existence of forgetting has never been proved:  We only know that some things don’t come to mind when we want them.” 
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.”
– George Bernard

“Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times more true.”
– George Denison Prentice

“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”
– George Eliot

“To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep.”
– George Eliot

“Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.”
– George Eliot

“Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.”
– George Eliot

“Memory itself is an internal rumour; and when to this hearsay within the mind we add the falsified echoes that reach us from others, we have but a shifting and unseizable basis to build upon. The picture we frame of the past changes continually and grows every day less similar to the original experience which it purports to describe.”
– George Santayana

“Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.”
– Georges Duhamel

“Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience and the council-chamber of thought.”
– Giambattista Basile

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