Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Firmianus, Lactantius

Best Quotes about Memory

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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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

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

Dante Alighieri

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

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

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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 the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Proverb, Irish

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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

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

William Shakespeare

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Mark Twain

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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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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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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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 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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Didion, Joan

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Herbert, George

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Pope, Alexander

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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