Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.

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

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

A strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

My memory about names and places now is dreadful. But lines, I can remember.

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

Memory feeds imagination.

Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

You know that old joke about potheads having bad memories? Well, the bad memories are like pain, discomfort, and fear. So you lose all that, and the body reacts by healing faster and stronger.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

Memory is imagination pinned down.

The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

Memory. My poison, my food.

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.