Quotes with -memory

  • No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
  • You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
  • He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
  • Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
  • Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
  • You get a letter from her agency embracing you into the family that says, 'It is our goal now to help you achieve your dream of being a songwriter, in John's memory.'.
  • I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.
  • Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
  • All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
  • The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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  • William Arthur Ward Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Siri Hustvedt Memory changes as a person matures.
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Mark Twain A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Anatole France An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Oscar Wilde If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • André Maurois Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Martin Farquhar Tupper Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
    Martin Farquhar Tupper
    English writer and poet (1810 - 1889)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling 'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Steven Wright A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Cliff Fadiman A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
    Cliff Fadiman
    American writer
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  • Irvin S. Cobb A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't.
    Irvin S. Cobb
    American author, humorist, editor and columnist (1876 - 1944)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli 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.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • John Henry Newman A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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  • Doug Larson A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
    Doug Larson
    American columnist and editor (1926 - 2017)
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  • George Herbert A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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