Motivational Quotes

Memory

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.

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Hazlitt, William

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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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 thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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Will, George F.

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Lewis Carroll

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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Proverb, Irish

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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 a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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 palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dante Alighieri

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Coward, Noel

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We have all forgot more than we remember.