Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Memory

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

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

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

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.

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Pope, Alexander

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One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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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 always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mark Twain

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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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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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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, Irish

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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 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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Boynton, Sandra