Motivational Quotes

Memory

If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

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Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bunuel, Luis

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Hazlitt, William

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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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

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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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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 palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Rogers, Will

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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 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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Herbert, George

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Mark Twain