Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Alexander Smith

Best Quotes about Memory

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

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

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

10.

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

Trachman, Jay

11.

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

Proverb, Persian

12.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

13.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

17.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

18.

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

Bumper Sticker

19.

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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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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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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

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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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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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The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Thomas, Lewis

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

34.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Coward, Noel

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Proverb

49.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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