Motivational Quotes

Memory

The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

- Campbell, Don

Best Quotes about Memory

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Lewis Carroll

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Mark Twain

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

Coward, Noel

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

17.

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

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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 always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Twain, Mark

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That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Wiesel, Elie

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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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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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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

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Rogers, Will

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

William Shakespeare

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Alexander Smith

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander