Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

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Best Quotes about Memory

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Connolly, Cyril

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Proverb, Irish

For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

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

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

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

Fulghum, Robert

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Pope, Alexander

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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

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

Smith, Alexander

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

Rogers, Will

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A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Fermi, Enrico

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Didion, Joan

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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[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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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 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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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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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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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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

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

Mark Twain