Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Memory

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Didion, Joan

Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bunuel, Luis

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Basile

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Herbert, George

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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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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If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Mark Twain

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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