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

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Mark Twain

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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

William Shakespeare

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Trachman, Jay

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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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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 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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Herbert, George

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