Motivational Quotes

Memory

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

- Fadiman, Clifton

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Coward, Noel

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

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Allen, Fred A.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

12.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Michel de Montaigne

14.

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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I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

16.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

17.

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

20.

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

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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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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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

Hazlitt, William

29.

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

Proverb, Irish

30.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

31.

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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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 only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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

Dante Alighieri

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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 things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

40.

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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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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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

43.

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Lewis Carroll

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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

46.

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

Rogers, Will

47.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Pope, Alexander

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.