Motivational Quotes

Memory

Never forget what you need to remember.

- Bartley, Garrett

Best Quotes about Memory

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

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

Basile

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

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

Pavese, Cesare

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, Irish

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

15.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

16.

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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The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

18.

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

19.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

20.

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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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

25.

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

Proverb, Persian

26.

I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

27.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

31.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

32.

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

Coward, Noel

33.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

34.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

35.

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

William Shakespeare

36.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

37.

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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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

39.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

43.

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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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

45.

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

46.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

47.

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

Bunuel, Luis

48.

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

49.

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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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