Motivational Quotes

Memory

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Coward, Noel

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

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

Campbell, Don

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

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Dante Alighieri

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Mark Twain

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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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 thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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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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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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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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

32.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

33.

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Herbert, George

35.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Pavese, Cesare

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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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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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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Twain, Mark

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

William Shakespeare

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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