Motivational Quotes

Memory

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Quotes about Memory

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Hubbard, Elbert

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Bunuel, Luis

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

Didion, Joan

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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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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 is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb, Irish

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Lewis Carroll

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Coward, Noel