Memory
The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.
The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.
The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.
Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.
A memorial.
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Memory Quotations
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
Memory Translations
memory in Afrikaans is herinnering
memory in Danish is erindring, hukommelse
memory in Dutch is geheugen, heugenis, herinnering
memory in Italian is ricordo, ricordo, deposito
memory in Latin is recordatio, memoria, animus
memory in Spanish is recordacion, memoria
memory in Swedish is minne
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