Motivational Quotes

Memory

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.

Best Quotes about Memory

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Mark Twain

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Trachman, Jay

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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 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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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 selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Didion, Joan

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Twain, Mark

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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 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

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Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

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

Proverb, Irish

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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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

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Arnold, Matthew

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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[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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In memory everything seems to happen to music.