Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Santmyer, Helen Hoover

Best Quotes about Memory

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

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Proverb

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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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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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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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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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

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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

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

Coward, Noel

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Mark Twain

25.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rogers, Will

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Campbell, Don

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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, 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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Pope, Alexander

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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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