Motivational Quotes

Memory

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

- Benjamin, Walter

Best Quotes about Memory

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

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

Didion, Joan

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Smith, Alexander

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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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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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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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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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 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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

Coward, Noel

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Alexander Smith

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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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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Pope, Alexander

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Twain, Mark

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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