Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Trachman, Jay

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

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

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Rogers, Will

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

14.

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

Benjamin, Walter

15.

I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Fermi, Enrico

17.

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

Johnson, Samuel

18.

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

Mark Twain

19.

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

20.

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

21.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

22.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

23.

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

Rogers, Will

24.

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

Lewis Carroll

25.

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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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

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Dante Alighieri

30.

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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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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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

33.

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

34.

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

Bunuel, Luis

35.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

37.

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

Proverb

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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

39.

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

Herbert, George

40.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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.

43.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

44.

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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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

46.

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

47.

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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