Edward de Bono Quotes

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Memory is more indelible than ink.

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

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

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

Everyone has ways of trying to find a way to memorise our past. There's something very poetic about that.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

Memory is a capricious and arbitrary creature. You never can tell what pebble she will pick up from the shore of life to keep among her treasures, or what inconspicuous flower of the field she will preserve as the symbol of "thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." . . . And yet I do not doubt that the most Important things are always the best remembered.

In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.

And never forget, there is memory.

Yesterday is just a memory.

You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget.

I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared.

He who forgets will be destined to remember.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

I'm surprised by how much I remember.

I said: I must remember this, being small.

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget.

I have a very vivid memory.

The part I remember best is the beginning.

Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.