Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Basile

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

Proverb

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rogers, Will

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Fermi, Enrico

18.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

19.

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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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Mark Twain

23.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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

25.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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

27.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

28.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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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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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

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

40.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

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

Herbert, George

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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

46.

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

47.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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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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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis