Motivational Quotes

Memory

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Fermi, Enrico

10.

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Michel de Montaigne

13.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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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

17.

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

18.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

20.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

26.

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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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Didion, Joan

29.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, Irish

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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

46.

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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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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