Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

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

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Paul, Jean

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

William Shakespeare

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

Pope, Alexander

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Tryon Edwards

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Mark Twain

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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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As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Boynton, Sandra

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William