Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Bunuel, Luis

Best Quotes about Memory

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.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mark Twain

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Hazlitt, William

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Fermi, Enrico

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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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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rogers, Will

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Didion, Joan

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Coward, Noel

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Dante Alighieri

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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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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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Friedrich Nietzsche