Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Basile

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Smith, Alexander

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

Twain, Mark

10.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

Paul, Jean

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

Wilde, Oscar

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You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all, just as an intelligence without the possibility of expression is not really an intelligence. Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

Bunuel, Luis

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Proverb, Irish

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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

29.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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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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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Hazlitt, William

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

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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

45.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Pavese, Cesare

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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 a thing I sought And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste. Then can I drown an eye (unused to flow) For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, and weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,and moan the expense of many a vanished sight. Then can I grieve at grievances foregone, and heavily from woe to woe tell over the sad account of fore-bemoaned moan, Which I new pay as if not paid before. But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, all losses are restored and sorrows end.

Shakespeare, William

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton