Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Proverb

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Coward, Noel

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Basile

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

10.

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

Bumper Sticker

11.

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

Rogers, Will

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

22.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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Shakespeare, William

30.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

William Shakespeare

34.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Wilde, Oscar

43.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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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

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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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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