Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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 the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

17.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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

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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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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

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Didion, Joan

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Connolly, Cyril

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Dante Alighieri