Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

- Basile

Best Quotes about Memory

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

William Shakespeare

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

Michel de Montaigne

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Twain, Mark

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb

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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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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

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

Mark Twain

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

18.

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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Rogers, Will

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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Dante Alighieri

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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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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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

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

Pavese, Cesare

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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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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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio