Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

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

Proverb, Irish

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Herbert, George

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

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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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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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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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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

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Didion, Joan

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Lewis Carroll

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Bunuel, Luis

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

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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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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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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Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay