Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

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

William Shakespeare

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Pavese, Cesare

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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Michel de Montaigne

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Be careful about lending a friend money. It may damage her memory.

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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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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mark Twain

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

24.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

25.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Coward, Noel

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Twain, Mark

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Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.

Pope, Alexander

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Observation is an old man's memory.