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- A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
- Doug Larson
- If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
- Rotarian
- Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.
- La Rochefoucauld
- God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it.
- Seymore Cray, on virtual memory
- To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Orator
- A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.
- Edward de Bono
- The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.
- Bill Beattie
- Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
- Maurice Baring
- Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
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