Motivational Quotes

Memory

We have all forgot more than we remember.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Memory

Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Mark Twain

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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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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I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.

William Shakespeare

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Campbell, Don

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

Pavese, Cesare

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Michel de Montaigne

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As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Boynton, Sandra

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

William Shakespeare

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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 selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Rogers, Will

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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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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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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[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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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The very act of constructing a map is itself so effective in fixing ideas in memory that very often a whole map can recalled without going back to it at all. A mind map is so strongly visual and uses so many of the natural functions of memory that frequently it can be simply read off in the mind's eye.

Russell, Peter

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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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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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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Johnson, Samuel

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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will