Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

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

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Paul, Jean

10.

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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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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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Gellhorn, Martha

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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Proverb

19.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Pavese, Cesare

27.

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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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

31.

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

Rogers, Will

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Proverb, Irish

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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

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

Mark Twain

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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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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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine