Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Quotes about Memory

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Proverb

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

Didion, Joan

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Mark Twain

10.

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

11.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

13.

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

Rogers, Will

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Hazlitt, William

18.

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

Herbert, George

19.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Proverb, Persian

25.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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 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

27.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

28.

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

29.

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

30.

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

31.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

32.

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

33.

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

34.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

35.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

36.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

37.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

38.

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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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

40.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

41.

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

Campbell, Don

42.

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

43.

[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

44.

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

45.

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

47.

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

Allen, Fred A.

48.

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

Fermi, Enrico

49.

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

50.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche