Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Gellhorn, Martha

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pope, Alexander

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

Byron, Lord

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Trachman, Jay

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Paul, Jean

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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