Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Fulghum, Robert

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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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Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Dante Alighieri

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Rogers, Will

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Coward, Noel

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

Proverb, Irish

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Rogers, Will

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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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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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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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 a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilde, Oscar