Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

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Best Quotes about Memory

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

Trachman, Jay

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

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

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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 don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Paul, Jean

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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 have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell