Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

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

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

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

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When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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[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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Twain, Mark

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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Mark Twain

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

Smith, Alexander

27.

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

Bumper Sticker

28.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

29.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

30.

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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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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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

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Paul, Jean

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

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

Lewis Carroll

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia