Motivational Quotes

Memory

Never forget what you need to remember.

- Bartley, Garrett

Best Quotes about Memory

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lewis Carroll

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Proverb

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

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

Paul, Jean

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

10.

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

11.

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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

14.

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

Rogers, Will

15.

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

Twain, Mark

16.

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

Herbert, George

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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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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

21.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

23.

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

24.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

25.

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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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

29.

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

30.

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

Alexander Smith

32.

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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

34.

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

Bunuel, Luis

35.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

36.

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

37.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

38.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

44.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

45.

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

Mark Twain

46.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

49.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Proverb, Irish