Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Alexander Smith

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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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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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

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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

18.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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

Didion, Joan

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

30.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Basile

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Twain, Mark

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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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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.