Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Memory

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

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Paul, Jean

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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 thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Proverb

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Dante Alighieri

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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Didion, Joan

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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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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 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

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Rogers, Will

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare

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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