Motivational Quotes

Memory

Lord, keep my memory green.

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Herbert, George

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

Campbell, Don

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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.

Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Dante Alighieri

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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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

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lewis Carroll

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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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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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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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People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Gellhorn, Martha

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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

24.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Mark Twain

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

Trachman, Jay

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Rogers, Will

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

Coward, Noel

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Proverb

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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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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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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