Motivational Quotes

Memory

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

- Fadiman, Clifton

Best Quotes about Memory

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Smith, Alexander

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

William Shakespeare

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

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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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Pavese, Cesare

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

28.

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 only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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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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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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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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[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 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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Johnson, Samuel

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.