Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Alexander Smith

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Byron, Lord

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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 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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Didion, Joan

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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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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Fermi, Enrico

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Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Twain, Mark

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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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