Motivational Quotes

Memory

The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

- Campbell, Don

Best Quotes about Memory

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Johnson, Samuel

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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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 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

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

Pope, Alexander

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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 mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

William Shakespeare

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Coward, Noel

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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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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Rogers, Will

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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