Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Trachman, Jay

The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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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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Fuller, Thomas

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Connolly, Cyril

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Alexander Smith

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Rogers, Will

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

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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

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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Coward, Noel

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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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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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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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