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

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Michel de Montaigne

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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan

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

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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

23.

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

Bumper Sticker

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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

31.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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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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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Basile

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

Paul, Jean

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover