Motivational Quotes

Memory

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Paul, Jean

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Arnold, Matthew

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

William Shakespeare

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Herbert, George

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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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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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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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 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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Pavese, Cesare

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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.