Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Didion, Joan

Best Quotes about Memory

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rogers, Will

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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 treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

22.

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

Lewis Carroll

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

24.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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[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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

37.

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

Mark Twain

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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

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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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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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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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