Motivational Quotes

Memory

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Memory

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Fermi, Enrico

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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 always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Coward, Noel

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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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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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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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