Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

William Shakespeare

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Dante Alighieri

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Fermi, Enrico

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Mark Twain

15.

That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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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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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

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

24.

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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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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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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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

28.

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

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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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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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Twain, Mark

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Michel de Montaigne

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Gellhorn, Martha

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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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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