Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
Albert Einstein

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde

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

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David Thoreau

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
Khalil Gibran

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Plato

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
Anatole France

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
Bob Dylan

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
Kurt Cobain

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
Lewis Carroll

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Helen Keller

A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
William Morris

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.
Robert Frost

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
James Russell Lowell

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.
George Eliot

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
F. Scott Fitzgerald