Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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.

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

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Mark Twain

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

14.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Coward, Noel

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Didion, Joan

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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

William Shakespeare

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

William Shakespeare

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.