Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

18.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

19.

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

20.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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 a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Proverb

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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

28.

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

Campbell, Don

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

30.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Paul, Jean

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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