Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Lewis Carroll

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Mark Twain

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

Rogers, Will

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

10.

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

Herbert, George

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

Fermi, Enrico

12.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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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Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

19.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

21.

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

Dante Alighieri

22.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

Byron, Lord

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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

28.

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

Pavese, Cesare

29.

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

30.

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

31.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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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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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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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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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

44.

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

Michel de Montaigne

45.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

46.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

48.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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

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

William Shakespeare