Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Memory

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

We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

Proust, Marcel

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Campbell, Don

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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

Herbert, George

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

Twain, Mark

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

Allen, Fred A.

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

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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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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

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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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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You can fall ill with just a memory.

Paolo Giordano

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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