Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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 the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Didion, Joan

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Bumper Sticker

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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 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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

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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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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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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 thing you forget with.

Chase, 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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio