Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Campbell, Don

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mark Twain

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Proverb, Irish

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Coward, Noel

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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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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Rogers, Will

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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 is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Didion, Joan

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The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Thomas, Lewis