Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Memory

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

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Persian

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

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

Mark Twain

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Johnson, Samuel

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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 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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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Levi, Primo

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Twain, Mark

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche