Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Alexander Smith

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Didion, Joan

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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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

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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.

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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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 treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

26.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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 things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Irish

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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 always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Arnold, Matthew

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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Fuller, Thomas

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Campbell, Don

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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

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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese