Motivational Quotes

Memory

Every man's memory is his private literature.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Didion, Joan

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Paul, Jean

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

Basile

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

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Mark Twain

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.

Allen, Fred A.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Herbert, George

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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: 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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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 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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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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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Fermi, Enrico

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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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

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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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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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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Wilde, Oscar