Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Campbell, Don

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

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Lewis Carroll

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Dante Alighieri

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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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 secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Tryon Edwards

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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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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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

William Shakespeare

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Bumper Sticker

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Didion, Joan

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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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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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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