Motivational Quotes

Memory

Lord, keep my memory green.

- Dickens, Charles

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Rogers, Will

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

Smith, Alexander

It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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

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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Fermi, Enrico

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Didion, Joan

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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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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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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Coward, Noel

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton