Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Memory

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

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

Didion, Joan

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Campbell, Don

10.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

Rachel Carson

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb

20.

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

Bumper Sticker

21.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Fermi, Enrico

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mark Twain

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Dante Alighieri

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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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 memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

Yourcenar, Marguerite