Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Fermi, Enrico

Best Quotes about Memory

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Kempis, Thomas

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Mark Twain

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

William Shakespeare

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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 moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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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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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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Herbert, George

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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 thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.