Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

- Pavese, Cesare

Best Quotes about Memory

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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

Lewis, Joe E.

We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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

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

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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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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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

15.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Rogers, Will

17.

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

18.

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

Proverb, Persian

19.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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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

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

Lewis Carroll

25.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Herbert, George

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

Didion, Joan

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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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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

31.

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Proverb, Irish

33.

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

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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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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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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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

Mark Twain

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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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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Trachman, Jay

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

43.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Michel de Montaigne

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

Paul, Jean

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

Bumper Sticker

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Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.