Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Alexander Smith

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Boynton, Sandra

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

William Shakespeare

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Michel de Montaigne

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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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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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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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Didion, Joan

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Coward, Noel

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Mark Twain

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

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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 the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim