Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Proverb, Persian

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

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

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

Proverb, Irish

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

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Hubbard, Elbert

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Coward, Noel

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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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

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Campbell, Don

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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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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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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Rogers, Will

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias