Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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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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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Didion, Joan

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lewis Carroll

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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