Motivational Quotes

Memory

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

- Proverb, Persian

Best Quotes about Memory

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Mark Twain

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

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Kempis, Thomas

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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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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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Didion, Joan

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Fulghum, Robert

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Wilde, Oscar