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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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Best Quotes about Memory

1.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Benjamin Franklin

2.
I would forget it fain; But, O, it presses to my memory, like damned guilty deeds to a sinners mind.
William Shakespeare

3.
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

4.
If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Twain, Mark

5.
Those who cannot remember the past will spend a lot of time looking for their cars in mall parking lots.
Trachman, Jay

6.
Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

7.
You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

8.
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
Benjamin, Walter

9.
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

10.
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

11.
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

12.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Michel de Montaigne

13.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Cicero, Marcus T.

14.
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
Herbert, George

15.
It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
Kingsolver, Barbara

16.
A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
Smith, Alexander

17.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

18.
Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought.
Pope, Alexander

19.
Of what significance are the things you can forget.
Thoreau, Henry David

20.
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

21.
The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

22.
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

23.
One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.
Proverb

24.
If I could remember your name, I'd ask you where I left my keys.
Bumper Sticker

25.
You can fall ill with just a memory.
Paolo Giordano

26.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Dante Alighieri

27.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus

28.
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

29.
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

30.
Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
Seattle, Chief

31.
The best memory is that which forgets nothing, but injuries. Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust.
Proverb, Persian

32.
I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and -- I can't remember what the third thing is.
Allen, Fred A.

33.
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

34.
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

35.
When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets.
Proverb, Irish

36.
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

37.
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many things I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste.
William Shakespeare

38.
The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.
Campbell, Don

39.
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

40.
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, SĀ°ren

41.
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.
Fulghum, Robert

42.
Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.
Firmianus, Lactantius

43.
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

44.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Hubbard, Elbert

45.
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

46.
Every man's memory is his private literature.
Huxley, Aldous

47.
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

48.
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

49.
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

50.
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.
William Shakespeare


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