Motivational Quotes

Memory

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

- Trachman, Jay

Best Quotes about Memory

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

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

William Shakespeare

Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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 selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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[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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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 should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost care and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

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

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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Campbell, Don

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Dante Alighieri

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.