Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Twain, Mark

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Herbert, George

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

Lewis, Joe E.

10.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

11.

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

12.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rogers, Will

14.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

18.

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

Rogers, Will

21.

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

22.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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 tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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

33.

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

Pope, Alexander

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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Tryon Edwards

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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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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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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

39.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

40.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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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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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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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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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Didion, Joan

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