Motivational Quotes

Memory

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Mark Twain

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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 always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Rogers, Will

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Coward, Noel

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Pope, Alexander

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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