Motivational Quotes

Memory

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

- Seattle, Chief

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Wilde, Oscar

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Paul, Jean

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Rogers, Will

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

Coward, Noel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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 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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Didion, Joan

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.