Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Pavese, Cesare

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

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.

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

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Coward, Noel

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Twain, Mark

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Fermi, Enrico

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias