Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Didion, Joan

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

Trachman, Jay

The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Twain, Mark

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Rogers, Will

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Michel de Montaigne

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Lewis Carroll

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Proverb

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee