Motivational Quotes

Memory

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

- Bowen, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Benjamin, Walter

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Fulghum, Robert

Bowen, Elizabeth

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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 always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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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

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

Mark Twain

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Coward, Noel

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Irish

23.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

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

Herbert, George

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Didion, Joan

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

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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