Motivational Quotes

Memory

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

Best Quotes about Memory

Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Williams, Tennessee

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

Kingsolver, Barbara

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

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 diary that we all carry about with us.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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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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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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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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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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We don't remember days; we remember moments.

Pavese, Cesare

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Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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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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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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Memory is the thing you forget with.

Chase, Alexander

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It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment --but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Irish

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Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Benjamin Franklin

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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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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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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Michel de Montaigne

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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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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Coward, Noel

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

Mark Twain

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

Paul, Jean

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This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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