Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Didion, Joan

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Wilde, Oscar

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Lewis Carroll

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Dante Alighieri

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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

14.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

15.

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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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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Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

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

Didion, Joan

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

28.

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

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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

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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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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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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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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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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 with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Coward, Noel

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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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