Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

- Rivarol, Antoine

Best Quotes about Memory

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Fulghum, Robert

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.

Campbell, Don

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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 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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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

18.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Paul, Jean

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

Herbert, George

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rogers, Will

25.

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

Proverb, Irish

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

33.

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

Didion, Joan

35.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Pavese, Cesare

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Coward, Noel

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

Fermi, Enrico

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano