Quotes About Memory

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

The memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so-called peace treaties.

After a hundred years Nobody knows the place, Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace.

Before the war and especially before the Boer War it was summer all the year round.

Not everyone who died had left a "memory" and not everyone who had left a memory had left a "blessed" one. Therefore, not all have died should be tagged "...of a blessed memory

This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory, " not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.

The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!

Imagining something is better than remembering something.

Remembering is the opposite of being here now; it's being there now.

Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.

By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.

History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

I have forgotten my umbrella.