Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Twain, Mark

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Smith, Alexander

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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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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Proverb

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Didion, Joan

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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

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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