Quotes About Memory

She's actually a friend of yours... Myosotis Terra. And you wouldn't know, actually. Or to be precise, you wouldn't remember. - Skulduggery (Myosotis Terra)

Until next time," Hansard said, "when hopefully, you won't have my father's vomit in your hair.

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

All knowledge is but remembrance.

Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered.

Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.

Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.

The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect.

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

Knowledge keeps no better than fish.

The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.