Memory is the processing system of our mind. Encoding, storage, and retrieval are three major processes involved in the memory processing system. Read the below best inspirational memory quotes that will help you to know the importance of memory. Also read the best peace of mind quotes, intelligence quotes, and genius quotes.
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Best Quotes About Memory
1. “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.” ― Mark Twain
2. “A complying memory has obliterated many of them and edited my childhood down to a brief cinematic blur.” ― Naipaul V.S.
3. “A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.” ― Clifton Fadiman
4. “A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away.” ― Eudora Welty
5. “A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.” ― Edward de Bono
6. “A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.” ― Elbert Hubbard
7. “Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.” ― Kurt Cobain
8. “Every man’s memory is his private literature.” ― Aldous Huxley
9. “Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.” ― Thomas Moore
10. “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” ― J.M. Barrie
11. “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” ― James M. Barrie
12. “Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” ― Lionel Hampton
13. “Happiness is good health and a bad memory.” ― Ingrid Bergman
14. “Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.” ― Albert Schweitzer
15. “Hold each moment you create on your sacred journey close to your heart, for that is the location where your memory will be deposited.” ― Molly Friedenfeld
16. “I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I’ve ever met.” ― Herb Caen
Best Inspirational Memory Quotes
17. “If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart.” ― Ranata Suzuki
18. “Life is a journey, education is our pleasure and our memory.” ― Debasish Mridha
19. “Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.” ― Tennessee Williams
20. “Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.” ― Kazuo Ishiguro
21. “Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.” ― William Faulkner
22. “Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.” ― Marilynne Robinson
23. “Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.” ― Barbara Kingsolver
24. “Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.” ― Julio Cortázar
25. “Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.” ― Albert Einstein
26. “Memory is dynamic, it’s alive.” ― Ari Folman
27. “Memory is more indelible than ink.” ― Anita Loos
28. “Memory is the happiness of being alone.” ― Lois Lowry
29. “Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.” ― Oscar Wilde
30. “Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.” ― Haruki Murakami
31. “No memory is ever alone; it’s at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.” ― Louis L’Amour
32. “Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.” ― Franklin Pierce Adams
33. “Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.” ― Andre Gide
34. “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.” ― Antonio Porchia
35. “One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” ― Rita Mae Brown
36. “Only memories have a future.” ― Ljupka Cvetanova
37. “Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” ― Guy de Maupassant
38. “Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.” ― Bram Stoker
39. “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” ― Marcel Proust
40. “Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.” ― Washington Irving
Strong Memory Quotes
41. “The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
42. “The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
43. “The magic of love is that it becomes our memory which we never can forget.” ― Debasish Mridha
44. “The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.” ― Pittacus Lore
45. “The true art of memory is the art of attention.” ― Samuel Johnson
46. “There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.” ― David Nicholls
47. “Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart’s desire.” ― John Dewey
48. “Time moves in one direction, memory in another.” ― William Gibson
49. “Touch has a memory.” ― John Keats
50. “We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.” ― Cassandra Clare
51. “When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.” ― Ann Brashares
52. “Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” ― Elie Wiesel
53. “Women do not lie about their age. In fact, no woman ever has, its just that memory is the first thing to go.” ― David C Holley
54. “Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.” ― Khalil Gibran
55. “You don’t have to hold onto the pain to hold onto the memory.” ― Janet Jackson
56. “You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.” ― Isaac Marion
57. “Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds its way back to you.” ― Ranata Suzuki
58. “Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory, but it has you!” ― John Irving
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