Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Memory

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Herbert, George

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Coward, Noel

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

Proverb, Irish

21.

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

Rogers, Will

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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mark Twain

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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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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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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 more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel