Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Pavese, Cesare

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Mark Twain

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

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Campbell, Don

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Fermi, Enrico

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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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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 always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rogers, Will

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover