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

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Twain, Mark

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

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Coward, Noel

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Smith, Alexander

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

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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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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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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

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Rogers, Will

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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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 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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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett