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

One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

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

Bunuel, Luis

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

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

Pavese, Cesare

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

Penfield, Wilder

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

William Shakespeare

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One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

Porchia, Antonio

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Rogers, Will

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Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen.

Proust, Marcel

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Campbell, Don

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

Lewis Carroll

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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

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Paul, Jean

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Seattle, Chief

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

Herbert, George

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Barkin, Ellen

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Observation is an old man's memory.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Mark Twain

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We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Firmianus, Lactantius

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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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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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Lord, keep my memory green.

Dickens, Charles

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Memories are all we really own.

Lieberman, Elias

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

Fermi, Enrico

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

Basile