Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Memory

Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kempis, Thomas

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

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

Proverb

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Herbert, George

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

Fermi, Enrico

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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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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

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rogers, Will

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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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

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Dante Alighieri

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Didion, Joan

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

Rogers, Will

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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[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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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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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

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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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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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