Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Kempis, Thomas

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

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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

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Rogers, Will

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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.

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Arnold, Matthew

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Didion, Joan

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Proverb

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

William Shakespeare

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Every man's memory is his private literature.