Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Memory

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Didion, Joan

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Mark Twain

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

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

William Shakespeare

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Williams, Tennessee

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Proverb

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Michel de Montaigne

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

43.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

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

Paul, Jean

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Rogers, Will

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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