Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Fermi, Enrico

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Mark Twain

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Basile

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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 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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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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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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