Will Rogers Quotes

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

You watch Jeff Sessions testifying in front of Congress, Jesus, like watching an amnesiac: "I don't recall," "I don't remember," "I don't recall," "I don't remember," "I don't remember what I don't recall," "I recall what I don't remember." Amazing.

Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

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

People talk from memory and memory often plays false.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

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

I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.

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.

... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.

I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.

You try and remember, but it never works.

I have a remarkable memory; I forget everything. It is wonderfully convenient. It is as though the world were constantly renewing itself for me.

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

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

I have the worst memory in the world. I can remember some of my dreams, but later that day, i'll forget them.

I don't think I remember my first memory.

Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.

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