Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

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

Coward, Noel

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

William Shakespeare

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Didion, Joan

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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 is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Twain, Mark

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

Paul, Jean

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

28.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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 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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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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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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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

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

Pope, Alexander

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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Lewis Carroll

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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 moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.