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

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

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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

I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Basile

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Proverb, Irish

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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

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Pavese, Cesare

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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[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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Mark Twain

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Paul, Jean

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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