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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Alexander Smith

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

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

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

Lewis Carroll

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Pavese, Cesare

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Paul, Jean

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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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

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

Didion, Joan

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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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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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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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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert