Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Herbert, George

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

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

Proverb, Irish

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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Mark Twain

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Pope, Alexander

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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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

28.

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

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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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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

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Didion, Joan

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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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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Rogers, Will

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.