Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Proust, Marcel

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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 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

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Campbell, Don

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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

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

Twain, Mark

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee