Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

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

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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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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

13.

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

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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 don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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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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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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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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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 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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

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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

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

William Shakespeare

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Pope, Alexander

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Mark Twain

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

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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