Motivational Quotes

Memory

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

- Foley, Tim

Best Quotes about Memory

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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

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

Herbert, George

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

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

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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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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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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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

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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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 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

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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

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Campbell, Don

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.

William Shakespeare

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Rogers, Will

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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