Motivational Quotes

Memory

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Memory

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

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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 only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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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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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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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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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 always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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 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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Coward, Noel

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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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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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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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