Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Memory

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

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

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

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

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

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

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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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 memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

18.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Bumper Sticker

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Johnson, Samuel

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Basile

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Didion, Joan

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

Twain, Mark

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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 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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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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[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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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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