Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Fulghum, Robert

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Pope, Alexander

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

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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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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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Dante Alighieri

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Mark Twain

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Boynton, Sandra

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia