Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Dante Alighieri

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

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

Proverb

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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 selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

12.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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 have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lewis Carroll

18.

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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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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

24.

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

Proverb, Irish

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Twain, Mark

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Smith, Alexander

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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 are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

43.

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

William Shakespeare

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Fermi, Enrico

49.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Herbert, George