Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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.

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

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Didion, Joan

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Campbell, Don

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Coward, Noel

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

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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 a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Levi, Primo

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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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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Boynton, Sandra

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Herbert, George

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan