Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
Gottfried Leibniz

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton

Memory is the personal journalism of the soul.
Richard Schickel

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
Tom Waits

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
Charlotte Bronte

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Barbara Kingsolver

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Doug Larson

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
Morgan Freeman

I've never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure there's enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.
Carrie Underwood

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.
Gustave Flaubert

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
Frank McCourt

My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.
Leonard Nimoy

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
Edgar Degas

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Jorge Luis Borges

The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
Louis Armstrong

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
George Herbert

The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel Johnson

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.
Samuel Johnson