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    Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

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Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

by Michel De Montaigne Found in: Memory Quotes,
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If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my
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If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my
mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

by Bible Found in: Memory Quotes,
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Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.

Many a man fails to become a thinker only because his memory is too good.

by Nietzsche Found in: Memory Quotes,
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Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

by Montaigne Found in: Memory Quotes,
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

by Friedrich Nietzsche Found in: Memory Quotes,
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

by Edward De Bono Found in: Memory Quotes,
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

by William Hazlitt Found in: Memory Quotes,
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No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have read more

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

by Louis L'amour Found in: Memory Quotes,
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

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