Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

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.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Allen, Fred A.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Williams, Tennessee

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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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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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 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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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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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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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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

William Shakespeare

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Coward, Noel

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

Mark Twain

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

Proverb, Irish

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Didion, Joan

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rogers, Will

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn