Motivational Quotes

Memory

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

- Foley, Tim

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

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

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

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

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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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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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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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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Rogers, Will

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Kempis, Thomas

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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