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 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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Herbert, George

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Trachman, Jay

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

[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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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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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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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

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Twain, Mark

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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 things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

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

Mark Twain

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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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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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 mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Campbell, Don