Motivational Quotes

Memory

[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

- Alexander Smith

Best Quotes about Memory

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Rogers, Will

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Didion, Joan

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Mark Twain

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Connolly, Cyril

19.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lewis Carroll

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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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.