Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Smith, Alexander

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Paul, Jean

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Mark Twain

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Dante Alighieri

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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 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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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Campbell, Don

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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