Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the thing you forget with.

- Chase, Alexander

Best Quotes about Memory

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Pavese, Cesare

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Pope, Alexander

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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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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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Campbell, Don

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

Twain, Mark

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

Paul, Jean

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Proverb, Irish

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche