Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Fermi, Enrico

Shakespeare, William

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

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

William Shakespeare

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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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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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, 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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rogers, Will

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Dante Alighieri

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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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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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

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

William Shakespeare

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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