Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Proverb

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

10.

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

Bumper Sticker

11.

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

12.

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

Dante Alighieri

13.

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

14.

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

15.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

16.

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

17.

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

Pope, Alexander

18.

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

Hazlitt, William

19.

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

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

20.

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

21.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Smith, Alexander

22.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

23.

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

Mark Twain

24.

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

25.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

26.

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

27.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

28.

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

Rogers, Will

29.

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

30.

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

33.

You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

34.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

35.

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

36.

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

37.

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

Kempis, Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

Campbell, Don

40.

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

41.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

46.

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

47.

Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

48.

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

49.

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

50.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.