Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memories are all we really own.

- Lieberman, Elias

Best Quotes about Memory

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Michel de Montaigne

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Coward, Noel

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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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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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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Rogers, Will

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

William Shakespeare

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano