Quotes About Memory

To understand everything is to forgive everything.' When one can understand the people, their gullibility and their fear, their greed and their lust for power, their ignorance and their docility to the man who shouts the loudest, one can forgive. Yes, one can forgive even what they did. But one can never forget. There

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

Vivir de recuerdos es morir.

What remains of people is what media can store and communicate.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises that one makes.

The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects .

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate -- and immediately forget we have done so.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the best even of their blunders.

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

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

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

These days we tend to put far more faith in concrete recordings, whether written or electronically preserved in audio and video, than we do in what someone remembers somebody having told them. The early Buddhists saw it differently. They thought the oral tradition was more likely to preserve the true essence and intention of what their master had said than if his exact words had been preserved on paper.

No matter how unacknowledged your act of compassion, the universe always notices it. And the universe has a very long memory.

Bradford Morrow

There probably are very few perfect tracks—tracks that never grow old and never cease to cause wonder. From the '70s and '80s, the following songs immediately spring to my mind as candidates: "The Battle of Evermore," "Spirit of Eden," "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed," "Close to the Edge," "In Your Eyes," "Thick as a Brick," "Cinema Show," "Echoes," and "The Killing Moon.

There is no sorrow like the memory of love and the knowledge that it is gone forever.

First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly.

The monuments of Man are worthless if no one is left to carry their meaning.

Tammy's fallen tomahawk.

What matters is, I will remember you, Cole. It can be hard to know how you impact people. Somewhere there might be entire kingdoms that will never forget you, where people young and old speak of you with awe and consider your birthday an important holiday.