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 cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

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

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

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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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Santayana, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Trachman, Jay

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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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Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lewis Carroll

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Mark Twain

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Coward, Noel

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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 is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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

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