Motivational Quotes

Memory

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

- Forster, Edward M.

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Coward, Noel

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Fermi, Enrico

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

Alexander Smith

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Lewis Carroll

12.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

13.

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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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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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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

18.

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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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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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

21.

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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Connolly, Cyril

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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

29.

This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bumper Sticker

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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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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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

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

Campbell, Don

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

41.

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

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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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

45.

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

Didion, Joan

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.