Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Paul, Jean

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

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

Lewis Carroll

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Proverb, Irish

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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

14.

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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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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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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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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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

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That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Wiesel, Elie

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

Bunuel, Luis

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake