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

Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Lewis Carroll

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

Levi, Primo

Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.

Trachman, Jay

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

William Shakespeare

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Paul, Jean

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

Pope, Alexander

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Herbert, George

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

Coward, Noel

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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

Benjamin, Walter

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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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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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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It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan

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

Twain, Mark

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

Mark Twain

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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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 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 the diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.

Bumper Sticker

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

Santayana, George

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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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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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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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Didion, Joan

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