Quotes about Memory

Novelist

It seems to me... that I have always lived! I possess memories that go back to the Pharoahs. I see myself very clearly at different ages of history, practicing different professions... My present personality is the result of my lost [past] personalities.

Age - Loss - Memory - Past - Personality - Profession

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William Wordsworth

Poet

Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

Death - Destroying - Memory

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Alexandre Dumas

Novelist, playwright

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Memory

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William Faulkner

Writer

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

Memory - Past - Sweet - Treasure

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Gustave Flaubert

Novelist

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Dating - Literature - Memory

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Winston Churchill

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Cyclist - Memory - Sarcasm - Time

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Historian, Novelist

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Use your memory! Use your memory! It is those bitter seeds alone which might sprout and grow someday. Look around you - there are people around you. Maybe you will remember one of them all your life and later eat your heart out because you didn't make use of the opportunity to ask him questions. And the less you talk, the more you'll hear.

Bitterness - Countries - Growing - Linguistics - Memory - Remembering

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Winston Churchill

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Anxiety - Familiarity - Man - Memory - Quotes

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Martin Luther

Theologian, Professor, Monk

I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.

Belief - Destroying - Devil - Holiness - Memory

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Helen Keller

Author, Political Activist, Lecturer

When I recollect the treasure of friendship that has been bestowed upon me I withdraw all charges against life. If much has been denied me, much, very much has been given. So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart I shall say that life is good.

Certainty - Giving - Memory

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Jorge Luis Borges

Philosopher, Poet, Writer, Critic

The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is for the psychologists of Tlön an example of the association of ideas or of memorization.

Memory - Teaching

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Margaret Thatcher

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

Loss - Memory - Nobility - Remembering

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an Andes landscape, such as we can hardly attain in lone meditation. Here are oracles sometimes profusely given, to which the memory goes back in barren hours.

Excitement - Giving - Memory

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Dalai Lama, XIV

Leader of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism, Exiled Leader of Tibet

It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives. Such recollection tends to be more accessible during meditative experiences in the dream state. Once one has accessed memories of previous lives in the dream state, one gradually recalls them in the waking state.

Memory - Mindset - Remembering - State

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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

Lie - Making - Memory - Sin

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Emily Dickinson

Poet

Remorse is memory awake.

Memory

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Albert Camus

Philosopher, Author, Journalist

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

Boredom - Man - Memory - Someday

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Simone de Beauvoir

Writer, Philosopher, Political Activist, Social Theorist

Sign of old age: distress at all leave-takings, all separations. And the sadness of memories, because I'm aware they're condemned to death.

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Deepak Chopra

Author, Public Speaker, Alternative Medicine Advocate

One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say 'my memory isn't what it used to be' or 'I can't remember a thing today.' You are actually training your brain to live up to your diminished expectations.

Attraction - Brain - Expectation - Healing - Health - Human - Memory - Remembering - Thinking - Training - Unique

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things.

Memory - School - Vocabulary

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