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

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Pavese, Cesare

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Mark Twain

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

Herbert, George

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

Paul, Jean

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Coward, Noel

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Rogers, Will

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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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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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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bunuel, Luis

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Irish

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Campbell, Don