Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

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

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bunuel, Luis

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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

Mark Twain

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Didion, Joan

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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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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Coward, Noel

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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 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