Motivational Quotes

Memory

We have all forgot more than we remember.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Memory

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Alexander Smith

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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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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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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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

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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

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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

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

Didion, Joan

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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

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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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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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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Rogers, Will

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

Mark Twain

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Trachman, Jay

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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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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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