Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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 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

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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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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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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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 the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Alexander Smith

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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

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

Mark Twain

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

Rogers, Will

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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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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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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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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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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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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

Coward, Noel

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

Dante Alighieri