Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Paul, Jean

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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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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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Rogers, Will

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

Pope, Alexander

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Bumper Sticker

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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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 effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

Wynne-Tyson, Jon

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay