Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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

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

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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 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

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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 like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Didion, Joan

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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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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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Pope, Alexander

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Pavese, Cesare

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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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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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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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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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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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[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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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen