Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Williams, Tennessee

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

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

Pope, Alexander

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Rogers, Will

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Proverb

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Benjamin, Walter

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Santayana, George

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Fermi, Enrico

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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

Coward, Noel

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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