Motivational Quotes

Memory

Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

- Santmyer, Helen Hoover

Best Quotes about Memory

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

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Basile

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Proverb, Persian

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

10.

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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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Pope, Alexander

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan

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

Rogers, Will

19.

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

Proverb, Irish

20.

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

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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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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: 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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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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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Lewis Carroll

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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[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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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Twain, Mark

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Herbert, George

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Didion, Joan

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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

46.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

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