Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Memory

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

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

Trachman, Jay

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

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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 to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

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

Twain, Mark

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Proverb

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Didion, Joan

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