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

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

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

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

Smith, Alexander

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

Basile

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Didion, Joan

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Proverb, Persian

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Paul, Jean

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

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Williams, Tennessee

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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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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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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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese