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

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

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

Johnson, Samuel

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Campbell, Don

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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 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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Irish

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Coward, Noel

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mark Twain

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Twain, Mark

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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