Motivational Quotes

Memory

You can fall ill with just a memory.

- Paolo Giordano

Best Quotes about Memory

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan

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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 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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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 the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Dante Alighieri

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

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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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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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

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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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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