Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Pavese, Cesare

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Herbert, George

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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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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

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Proverb

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Rogers, Will

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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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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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rogers, Will

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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 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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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Paul, Jean

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

44.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Wilde, Oscar