Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

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

Herbert, George

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

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

Bumper Sticker

21.

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

22.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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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

25.

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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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Twain, Mark

31.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

32.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Didion, Joan

41.

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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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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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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