Motivational Quotes

Memory

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

- Fulghum, Robert

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Twain, Mark

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

William Shakespeare

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Proverb, Irish

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

18.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Pavese, Cesare

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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 the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

48.

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

Coward, Noel

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry