Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Hubbard, Elbert

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Johnson, Samuel

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Paul, Jean

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Fulghum, Robert

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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 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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Campbell, Don

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Dante Alighieri

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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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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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Didion, Joan

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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