Motivational Quotes

Memory

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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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.

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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Proust, Marcel

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Smith, Alexander

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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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This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Pope, Alexander

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Mark Twain

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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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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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When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Rogers, Will

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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

Yourcenar, Marguerite

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.