Motivational Quotes

Memory

I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

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

One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

10.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Proverb, Persian

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

William Shakespeare

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Rogers, Will

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Didion, Joan

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Wilde, Oscar

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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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