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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Johnson, Samuel

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

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

Mark Twain

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Proust, Marcel

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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

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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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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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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Rogers, Will

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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