Motivational Quotes

Memory

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Proverb, Persian

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Hubbard, Elbert

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Rogers, Will

10.

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

Michel de Montaigne

11.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

12.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

13.

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

Bumper Sticker

14.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Basile

18.

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

19.

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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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

21.

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

Hazlitt, William

23.

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

24.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

25.

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

Herbert, George

27.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

28.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

31.

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

Coward, Noel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

37.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

38.

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

Rogers, Will

39.

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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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

47.

In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Santayana, George

48.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

50.

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

Connolly, Cyril