Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memories are all we really own.

- Lieberman, Elias

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Didion, Joan

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Bumper Sticker

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Proverb

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

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

William Shakespeare

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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 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

20.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Campbell, Don

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Trachman, Jay

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Rogers, Will

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Williams, Tennessee