Motivational Quotes

Memory

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Memory

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

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

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

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

Bunuel, Luis

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Herbert, George

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

William Shakespeare

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Didion, Joan

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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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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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

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

Proverb, Irish

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lewis Carroll

32.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb

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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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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

40.

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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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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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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Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do