Motivational Quotes

Memory

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

- Barkin, Ellen

Best Quotes about Memory

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Michel de Montaigne

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Herbert, George

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

10.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Dante Alighieri

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Twain, Mark

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

Didion, Joan

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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 only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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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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The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

Yourcenar, Marguerite

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When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

Proverb, Irish

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

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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