Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Proverb

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

Lewis Carroll

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

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

William Shakespeare

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Twain, Mark

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Campbell, Don

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Basile

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

Alexander Smith

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Coward, Noel

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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