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

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

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Campbell, Don

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

William Shakespeare

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Rogers, Will

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Didion, Joan

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

49.

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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