Quotes About Memory

I swam across Skaneateles Lake, about a mile, when I was 11 years old. I remember feeling when I was in the middle of the lake that I would be there forever, and having no idea where on shore I'd end up. I made it, and I'm proud of the determination and persistence that took.

Memory dictates and history writes

Memory is constantly on our lips because it no longer exists.

I had to bear witness in order to protect the future, bear witness in order to overcome the amnesia of my contemporaries.

Una humanidad, global o parcial, q no tuviera ninguna conciencia de su pasado sería tan anormal como un individuo amnésico (…) en la medida en q el pasado humano es mal conocido, malinterpretado, los hombres y los grupos de hombres, tiene una visión incorrecta de su presente, ?y de su futuro

I maintain that a student's memory is largely the teacher's responsibility.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Unsung, the noblest deed will die.

In heaven, learning is seeing; On earth, remembering.

Women are like posters. One is stuck on top of another and covers it completely. Perhaps just for a moment, when the paste is still soft and the paper still wet and slightly transparent, you may still catch a vague impression of the splashes of color of the first, but soon there's no more trace of it. Then, when the second one is removed, both come away together, leaving your memory and your heart as blank as a wall.

The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.

We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory, inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection-for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.

You're just another story I can't tell anymore.

God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

Those who receive with most pains and difficulty, remember best; every new think they learn, being, as it were, burnt and branded in on their minds.

Over time events trickle out of the minds of forgetful, thoughtless people, and so, since they retain and conserve nothing, the empty space within them, that should be filled with good things, is filled instead with hopes, so that they neglect the present and look to the future, despite the fact that fortune may yet foil the future, whereas the present cannot be taken away.

In an harangue to the people, he said, with reference to these measures, that he had proscribed all he could think of, and as to those who now escaped his memory, he would proscribe them at some future time.

In a harangue to the people, he said, with reference to these measures, that he had proscribed all he could think of, and as to those who now escaped his memory, he would proscribe them at some future time.

I don't recall the beginning of what you said, and consequently I also don't grasp the middle sections, while the part at the end I don't approve of.

Fish can pass memories between generations. But maybe the better way to say it is that fish can pass experience learning through generations.

No desperdicies el recuerdo del camino recorrido. Ello no retrasa vuestra carrera, sino que la dirige; el que olvida el punto de partida, pierde fácilmente la meta.