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

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

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

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Fermi, Enrico

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.

Proverb, Irish

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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 charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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

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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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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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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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Coward, Noel

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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.