Motivational Quotes

Memory

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

- Seattle, Chief

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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

Rogers, Will

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

Didion, Joan

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

11.

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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

13.

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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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 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

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

Proverb, Irish

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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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'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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Fulghum, Robert

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

50.

This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.