Motivational Quotes

Memory

We have all forgot more than we remember.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Memory

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

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mark Twain

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

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

Campbell, Don

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

10.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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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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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 good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

William Shakespeare

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb