Motivational Quotes

Memory

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Memory

One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Paul, Jean

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

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

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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

16.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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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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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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

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

Lewis Carroll

22.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Twain, Mark

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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

29.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Proverb, Irish

34.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

38.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Hubbard, Elbert