Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Memory

1.

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

Williams, Tennessee

2.

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

Smith, Alexander

3.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

4.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

5.

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

6.

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

Michel de Montaigne

7.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

8.

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

Fermi, Enrico

9.

Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Thoreau, Henry David

10.

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

11.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

12.

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

Pope, Alexander

13.

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

14.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

18.

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

19.

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

Proverb

20.

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

Connolly, Cyril

21.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

Alexander Smith

23.

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

24.

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

25.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Dante Alighieri

28.

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

29.

But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Arnold, Matthew

30.

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

31.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

32.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

33.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

34.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

35.

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

36.

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

Kempis, Thomas

37.

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

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

39.

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

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

Lewis Carroll

42.

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

Paul, Jean

43.

The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

44.

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

45.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

46.

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

47.

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

48.

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

49.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

50.

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan