Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

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?

Why is it that I can remember so easily the lyrics to the opening theme song of 'Gilligan's Island?' Why do I remember these trivial things, and I can't remember the names of important collaborators?

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

I have a great memory.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

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

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

Short term memory is not good.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.

'Mnemonic' is a play about memory.