Motivational Quotes

Memory

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Proverb

Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Twain, Mark

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

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

Pavese, Cesare

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Herbert, George

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

11.

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

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Benjamin, Walter

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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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Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.

Basile

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bunuel, Luis

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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.

Proverb, Persian

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

30.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Didion, Joan

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Rogers, Will

38.

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

39.

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

Michel de Montaigne

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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

42.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Pope, Alexander

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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

Coward, Noel

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Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.