Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Michel de Montaigne

11.

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Paul, Jean

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Didion, Joan

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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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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

27.

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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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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

40.

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 the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Santayana, George