Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Fermi, Enrico

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Paul, Jean

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Bunuel, Luis

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Johnson, Samuel

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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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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 don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Didion, Joan

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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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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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Twain, Mark

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I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Ionesco, Eugene

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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