Motivational Quotes

Memory

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

- Porchia, Antonio

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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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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[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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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

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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Mark Twain

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

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

Proverb

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Johnson, Samuel

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That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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