Motivational Quotes

Memory

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

- Smith, Alexander

Best Quotes about Memory

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Proverb, Persian

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

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

Basile

10.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

11.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

12.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

13.

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

Williams, Tennessee

14.

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

15.

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Coward, Noel

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

Paul, Jean

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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 diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

21.

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

Rogers, Will

22.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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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

25.

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 act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Lewis Carroll

29.

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

Twain, Mark

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

38.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Proverb, Irish

47.

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Mark Twain

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