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

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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

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

Bunuel, Luis

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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

Mark Twain

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

10.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

11.

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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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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

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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: 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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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 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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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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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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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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You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

Rogers, Will

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Campbell, Don

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Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Rivarol, Antoine

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Paul, Jean

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

Didion, Joan

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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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

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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

36.

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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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Basile

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

Rogers, Will

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

Lewis Carroll

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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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