Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dante Alighieri

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Smith, Alexander

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

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

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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Herbert, George

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

Rogers, Will

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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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 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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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 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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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 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

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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.