Audrey Meadows Quotes

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.

I've been in this business long enough to recognize genuine talent.

Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

I am terrible with people's names.

My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

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

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

… the cynic has unusually high motives or insight. He is better able to see behind false appearances, and he is more shocked and disappointed to discover the low motives of others. Because he is unwilling to be hypocritical, he is less popular and so he succeeds and leads less. Most people dislike cynics because cynics expose most people's hypocrisy.

I've always been forgetful.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

I'm probably not one of the more vocal people around, but I do watch, I do listen and I try to learn from the people I watch.

I don't forget nothing. It's a vault up here.

I'm very observant. I see more than people think I'm seeing.