Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

- Aeschylus

Best Quotes about Memory

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Thomas, Lewis

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

William Shakespeare

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Benjamin, Walter

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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Levi, Primo

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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Boynton, Sandra

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare

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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Santayana, George

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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Didion, Joan

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Michel de Montaigne

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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.

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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Rogers, Will

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Arnold, Matthew

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Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.

Firmianus, Lactantius

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The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

Wynne-Tyson, Jon

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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Proust, Marcel

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Pope, Alexander

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Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

Fuller, Thomas

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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare