Motivational Quotes

Memory

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

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

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Didion, Joan

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Michel de Montaigne

11.

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

12.

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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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

19.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Bumper Sticker

28.

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

Rogers, Will

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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

32.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lewis Carroll

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Mark Twain

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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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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

43.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

Wynne-Tyson, Jon

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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.