Motivational Quotes

Memory

Observation is an old man's memory.

- Swift, Jonathan

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

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

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Rogers, Will

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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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

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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] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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

Pavese, Cesare

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Boynton, Sandra

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Mark Twain

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano