Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Memory

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

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

Fulghum, Robert

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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 things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Campbell, Don

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

Didion, Joan

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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 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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rogers, Will

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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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

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mark Twain

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