Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Memory

Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.

Firmianus, Lactantius

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

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

Basile

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

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

Byron, Lord

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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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Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Proust, Marcel

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

Proverb, Irish

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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Santayana, George

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

Tryon Edwards

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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