Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Memory

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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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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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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Herbert, George

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

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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 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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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

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

Dante Alighieri

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.