Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Didion, Joan

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

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

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bumper Sticker

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Twain, Mark

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Santayana, George

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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Didion, Joan

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Pavese, Cesare

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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

Campbell, Don

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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Lewis, Joe E.