Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Kingsolver, Barbara

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

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

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

[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 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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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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan

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

Lewis Carroll

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

William Shakespeare

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

Campbell, Don

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

41.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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 good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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 scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias