Motivational Quotes

Memory

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

- Trachman, Jay

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Basile

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Alexander Smith

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

10.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

11.

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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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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Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

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

Rogers, Will

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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 palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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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

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.