Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Lewis Carroll

Best Quotes about Memory

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

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

Lewis Carroll

I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.

Lewis, Joe E.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Allen, Fred A.

Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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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

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In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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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

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

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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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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Coward, Noel

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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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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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

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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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[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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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb, Irish