Motivational Quotes

Memory

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Best Quotes about Memory

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Pavese, Cesare

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

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Williams, Tennessee

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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 man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

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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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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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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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

Didion, Joan

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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 have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness.

Yourcenar, Marguerite

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Dante Alighieri

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano