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

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

Pope, Alexander

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

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

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Rogers, Will

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

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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 things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn The living record of your memory.

William Shakespeare

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

William Shakespeare

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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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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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 thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Bumper Sticker

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Lewis Carroll

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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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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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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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dante Alighieri

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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