Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Quotes about Memory

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

William Shakespeare

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

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

Fermi, Enrico

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Twain, Mark

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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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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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

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

Trachman, Jay

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Didion, Joan

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Dante Alighieri

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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