Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Fulghum, Robert

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Rogers, Will

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

Coward, Noel

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Connolly, Cyril

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

27.

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Tryon Edwards

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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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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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.

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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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

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Firmianus, Lactantius