Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Campbell, Don

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

It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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

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

Herbert, George

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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Mark Twain

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Didion, Joan

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

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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan

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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 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

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Rogers, Will

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Coward, Noel

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