Motivational Quotes

Memory

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Memory

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Bunuel, Luis

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Persian

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

William Shakespeare

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Lewis Carroll

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The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

Wynne-Tyson, Jon

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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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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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

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

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

Didion, Joan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mark Twain

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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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One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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

Herbert, George

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Fermi, Enrico

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Rogers, Will

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Rogers, Will