Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

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

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

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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Fuller, Thomas

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Smith, Alexander

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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 the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Michel de Montaigne

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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

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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

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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Coward, Noel

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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Didion, Joan

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Gellhorn, Martha

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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