Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Rogers, Will

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

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

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

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Trachman, Jay

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

Proverb

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

William Shakespeare

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Pavese, Cesare

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Dante Alighieri

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Pope, Alexander

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

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

Kempis, Thomas