Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Dante Alighieri

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

William Shakespeare

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Rogers, Will

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

Pope, Alexander

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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 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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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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 mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

Byron, Lord

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Coward, Noel

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake