Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Memory

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.

It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Didion, Joan

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Coward, Noel

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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Twain, Mark

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Proverb

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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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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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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