Motivational Quotes

Memory

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Proverb, Persian

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

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

It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

10.

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

Didion, Joan

11.

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

12.

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

Proverb

13.

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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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

16.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Coward, Noel

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

Smith, Alexander

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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 things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

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

Campbell, Don

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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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

40.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mark Twain

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