Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Coward, Noel

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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 have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Twain, Mark

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

Johnson, Samuel

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Rogers, Will

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Fermi, Enrico

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Lewis Carroll

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The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

Wynne-Tyson, Jon

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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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