Motivational Quotes

Memory

Never forget what you need to remember.

- Bartley, Garrett

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Thomas, Lewis

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Benjamin, Walter

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Mark Twain

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Paul, Jean

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

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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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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Didion, Joan

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

William Shakespeare

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Coward, Noel

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

Pope, Alexander