Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Bunuel, Luis

Best Quotes about Memory

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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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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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

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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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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[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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

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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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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

36.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Didion, Joan

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

Rogers, Will

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Herbert, George

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio