Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Memory

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Mark Twain

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

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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 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 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] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

25.

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Lewis Carroll

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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 is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Twain, Mark

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

Basile

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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

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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