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

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

Proverb, Irish

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.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Wilde, Oscar

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Coward, Noel

10.

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

Pavese, Cesare

11.

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

12.

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

Proverb, Persian

16.

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

Dante Alighieri

17.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

18.

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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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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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

24.

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

25.

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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

27.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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

29.

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

William Shakespeare

30.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

31.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

32.

It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

33.

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

Lewis Carroll

34.

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

Rogers, Will

35.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

36.

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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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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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

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

40.

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