Motivational Quotes

Memory

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

- Fadiman, Clifton

Best Quotes about Memory

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

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

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

10.

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

Michel de Montaigne

11.

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

Proverb, Irish

12.

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

15.

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

Bumper Sticker

16.

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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Mark Twain

27.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

28.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Rogers, Will

34.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

35.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

42.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

43.

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 thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

46.

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 I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

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

Dante Alighieri

49.

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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Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile