Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Wilde, Oscar

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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 palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Paul, Jean

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

Proverb

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Irish

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Fulghum, Robert

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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 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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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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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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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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

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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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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 memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fermi, Enrico

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Mark Twain

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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