Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Memory

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

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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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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Mark Twain

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Herbert, George

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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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

Bumper Sticker

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

William Shakespeare

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Twain, Mark

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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.