Motivational Quotes

Memory

Observation is an old man's memory.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Memory

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

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

Didion, Joan

That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Coward, Noel

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Proust, Marcel

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

William Shakespeare

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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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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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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Mark Twain

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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