Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Didion, Joan

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Coward, Noel

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

Herbert, George

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

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

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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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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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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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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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] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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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 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

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Pope, Alexander

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Proverb

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata