Motivational Quotes

Memory

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Memory

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

William Shakespeare

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

Alexander Smith

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Michel de Montaigne

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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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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 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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Campbell, Don

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Mark Twain

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Coward, Noel

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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.