Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
Will Durant

I've a grand memory for forgetting.
Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
Aeschylus

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.
Dee Hock

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
Ken Kesey

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

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Miguel de Unamuno

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.
Black Elk

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
Taylor Caldwell

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
Taylor Caldwell

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
Aleister Crowley

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
Vladimir Nabokov

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Joseph Conrad

Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
Baltasar Gracian

We photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing, and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth can make them come back again. We cannot develop and print a memory.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.
Toni Morrison