Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Twain, Mark

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Fermi, Enrico

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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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Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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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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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Pavese, Cesare

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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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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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Coward, Noel

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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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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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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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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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

Hazlitt, William