Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Herbert, George

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Hubbard, Elbert

10.

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

William Shakespeare

11.

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Rogers, Will

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

19.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Coward, Noel

29.

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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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

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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 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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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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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Firmianus, Lactantius