Motivational Quotes

Memory

Every man's memory is his private literature.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Memory

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Pavese, Cesare

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Campbell, Don

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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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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

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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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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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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[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 scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Paul, Jean

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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

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

Mark Twain

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Herbert, George

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Trachman, Jay

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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