Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Memory

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Campbell, Don

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

Kempis, Thomas

It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

Byron, Lord

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Proverb

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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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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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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Coward, Noel

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Paul, Jean