Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Memory

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Campbell, Don

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

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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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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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 selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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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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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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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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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Hazlitt, William

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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: 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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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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 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

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Didion, Joan

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles