Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Memory

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

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

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

Basile

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

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

Proverb

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Rogers, Will

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Lewis Carroll

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

Paul, Jean

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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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

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

Proverb, Irish

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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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Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De