Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Coward, Noel

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Paul, Jean

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Didion, Joan

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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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 palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Herbert, George

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Coward, Noel

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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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