Motivational Quotes

Memory

You can fall ill with just a memory.

- Paolo Giordano

Best Quotes about Memory

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Pope, Alexander

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

13.

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

Smith, Alexander

14.

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

15.

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

Williams, Tennessee

16.

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

17.

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

18.

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

19.

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

Twain, Mark

20.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

21.

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

22.

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

Didion, Joan

23.

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

24.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

25.

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

Kempis, Thomas

26.

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

Fulghum, Robert

27.

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

28.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

29.

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

Michel de Montaigne

30.

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

31.

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

32.

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

33.

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

34.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

35.

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

Bumper Sticker

36.

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

37.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

38.

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

Proverb, Irish

39.

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

40.

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 the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

42.

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

Rogers, Will

43.

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

44.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

45.

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

Fermi, Enrico

46.

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

47.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

48.

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

Rogers, Will

49.

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

Coward, Noel

50.

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