Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Rogers, Will

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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Rogers, Will

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

Didion, Joan

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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Paul, Jean

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Coward, Noel

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Twain, Mark

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