Motivational Quotes

Memory

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Proverb

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

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

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Pope, Alexander

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Twain, Mark

10.

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

11.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

William Shakespeare

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

18.

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

Proverb, Irish

19.

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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

21.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

27.

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

28.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

30.

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Levi, Primo

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

Campbell, Don

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

Coward, Noel

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

Proverb, Persian

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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

40.

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

Dante Alighieri

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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

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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.

49.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche