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

Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Didion, Joan

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Fermi, Enrico

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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Paul, Jean

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Coward, Noel

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Herbert, George

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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