Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

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

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rogers, Will

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Lewis Carroll

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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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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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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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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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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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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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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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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

Campbell, Don

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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 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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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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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Every man's memory is his private literature.