Motivational Quotes

Memory

Observation is an old man's memory.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

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

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Didion, Joan

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

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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 things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

William Shakespeare

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

Fermi, Enrico

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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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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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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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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

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Coward, Noel

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

Dante Alighieri

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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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