Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Hazlitt, William

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Coward, Noel

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

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

Pope, Alexander

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Alexander Smith

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

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Gellhorn, Martha

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

William Shakespeare

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

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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

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rogers, Will

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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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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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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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Lewis Carroll

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Mark Twain

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Dante Alighieri

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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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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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Fulghum, Robert