Motivational Quotes

Memory

Lord, keep my memory green.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Memory

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Proverb, Irish

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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 thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Didion, Joan

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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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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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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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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

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

Paul, Jean

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

Mark Twain

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

Lewis Carroll

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De