Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memories are all we really own.

- Lieberman, Elias

Best Quotes about Memory

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Didion, Joan

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Wilde, Oscar

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Michel de Montaigne

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Connolly, Cyril

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Alexander Smith

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Coward, Noel

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

Allen, Fred A.

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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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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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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

43.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche