Motivational Quotes

Memory

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Memory

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

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Proust, Marcel

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When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare

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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Twain, Mark

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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 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 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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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

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Pavese, Cesare

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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 the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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