Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Trachman, Jay

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Twain, Mark

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

13.

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

Mark Twain

14.

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

Pavese, Cesare

15.

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

Bumper Sticker

16.

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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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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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

21.

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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Rogers, Will

24.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

25.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Herbert, George

31.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

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The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

44.

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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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

49.

That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Connolly, Cyril