Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

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

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

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

[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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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.

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

William Shakespeare

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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 cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Didion, Joan

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Lewis Carroll

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

47.

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

Pavese, Cesare

48.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Friedrich Nietzsche