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

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

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

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

Bumper Sticker

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

William Shakespeare

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Johnson, Samuel

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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 the diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Paul, Jean

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Didion, Joan

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rogers, Will

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Fulghum, Robert

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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