Motivational Quotes

Memory

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

- Herbert, George

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Trachman, Jay

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

Rogers, Will

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Coward, Noel

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Campbell, Don

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Benjamin, Walter

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.