Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

- Basile

Best Quotes about Memory

If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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

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

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

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Didion, Joan

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Twain, Mark

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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 is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Mark Twain

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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

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When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, 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

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles