Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memory is the thing you forget with.

- Chase, Alexander

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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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

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Herbert, George

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Dante Alighieri

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

10.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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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 advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Paul, Jean

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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 is the thing you forget with.

Chase, 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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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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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 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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Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

43.

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

Lewis Carroll

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Wilde, Oscar