Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Firmianus, Lactantius

Best Quotes about Memory

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Smith, Alexander

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

10.

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

11.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

12.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

14.

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

Pavese, Cesare

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

20.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

21.

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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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

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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

24.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

25.

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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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

27.

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

28.

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

Coward, Noel

29.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

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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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

32.

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

Rogers, Will

33.

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

Fermi, Enrico

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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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Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

36.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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 short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb

42.

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

Proverb, Irish

43.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

44.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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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

47.

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

Didion, Joan

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

50.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.